3 Tablespoons Olive Oil Chopped/Minced Garlic (as little or as much as you like) ****les (Pipis) as much as you can dig up Crusty Bread (if available)
Heat a large saucepan on low Add Oil Add Garlic when Oil has heated (not too high or it's bitter) Add ****les Cover with Tight Lid Shake every minute or so After about 5 minutes remove lid (Discard any unopened ****les) Pour ****les (juice and all) into big bowls Dip Bread into sauce
Note: Make sure ****les are flushed two or three times with water to discard any sand before cooking Note 2: For a bit of kick add some chopped chili with the oil before adding the garlic
When I was living in Salisbury (UK) I used to buy ****les off the market, used to sell them in a little dish and there was malt vinegar and S&P on the stall, yum yum, I didn't know they were what my Dad called pipis, they were what my Dad used for fishing. We used to twist our feet in the sand, think when tide was going out....long time ago, and collect them. If I'd known they were ****les I'd have been down collecting them for me...never mind the fish. Never dreamed they were the same thing. And we used to live in Wollongong near the water all these ****leless years....hehehe
being from the U.K., it amuses me to see the **** part of ****les taken out. A great Irish song by Maggie Malone has the line, 'Singing ****les and muscles alive alive oh', muscles being a similar shellfish. ****les are known by no other word. In the county where I was born, you would call a family member or good mate **** or ****a, it means that you are close to that person in a loving or very friendly way and the word has no rude meaning whatever, just thought I'd add my twopence worth.
I was born and returned many times to Whitstable, Kent in the U.K. and well remember "winkles" (you pulled them out with a pin!) and whelks - served from the stall in little white dishes, along with the vinegar and salt......................really miss them whelks! Y-u-u-m-m-m-m-m!
Now that is very interesting. In New Zealand the pipis are a little shellfish very different to ****les. I always thought pipis was a maori word, in fact I'm sure it is. We used to dig for them in the sand, build an open fire and cook them till they popped open then put them in between two pieces of white buttered bread. Yum! ****les are quite a different shellfish, more round. Have never been shellfishing here so not sure what they are all like in Aus.
