Recipe: Pastai Gocos (Cockle Pie)

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Description/Notes:

Cockles are in abundance on the Gower coast of Wales and this is just one of the many variations on Cockle pie from that area

Ingredients:

1 quart cockles

1 cup water

1 bunch Spring onions

4 slices bacon

1/2 cup of milk

pinch of pepper

short-crust pastry

Cooking Instructions:

1. Leave cockles in slightly salted water sprinkled with oatmeal overnight
2. Drain and scrub thoroughly
3. Place in a saucepan of salted water for 3 minutes until the shells open
4. When cool remove cockles from their shells
5. Line the sides of a pie dish with shortcrust pastry
6. Cover the bottom of the dish with cockles
7. Chop up the onions and sprinkle over the cockles
8. Add a layer of finely chopped bacon
9. Repeat, ending with a layer of cockles
10. Pour in the liquid in which the cockles were boiled
11. Add pepper to taste
12. Use strips of pastry to criss-cross the top and brush with milk
13. Cook for 20-25 minutes in oven at gas mark 7, 425F