A little video showing the unbelievably sized Cockles i foraged from the sea shore in Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire.
Never have i seen them this big before, they were some real monsters, absolutely bursting with top quality meat.
You really can not beat free food from the natural wild larder.
be it from the hedgerow, stream or shoreline.
Field to fork, sea/stream to plate.
What Is A Cockle...?
A cockle is a small, edible, saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc. Although many small edible bivalves are loosely called cockles, true cockles are species in the family Cardiidae. True cockles live in sandy, sheltered beaches throughout the world. The distinctive rounded shells are bilaterally symmetrical, and are heart-shaped when viewed from the end. Numerous radial evenly spaced ribs are a feature of the shell in most but not all genera (for an exception, see the genus Laevicardium, the egg cockles, which have very smooth shells).
The shell of a cockle is able to close completely (i.e., there is no "gape" at any point around the edge). Though the shell of a cockle may superficially resemble that of a scallop because of the ribs, cockles can be distinguished from scallops morphologically in that cockle shells lack "auricles" (triangular ear-shaped protrusions near the hinge line) and scallop shells lack a pallial sinus. Behaviorally, cockles live buried in sediment, whereas scallops are either free-living and will swim in the sea water to avoid a predator, or in some cases they live attached by a byssus to a substrate.
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