Although there are many winkles on Breydon, I have never seen the oystercatcher take them. |
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Other combinations include pasta with winkles, Yorkshire pudding stuffed with Italian cured meat, and sanguinaccio con cipole. |
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At Kircubbin Bay, people were out at low tide with their rakes, collecting cockles and winkles. |
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Shellfish such as oysters, mussels, cockles, winkles, whelks and crabs were collected for food from the estuaries and sea-shores. |
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Most Scottish rock pools are full of winkles, their round olive-green or brown shells as easy to pick as daisies on a lawn. |
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I boiled the winkles and steamed the potatoes as quickly as I could. |
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The gang spent several hours using quad bikes to speed along the seabed at low water as the rest filled hundreds of sacks of the winkles to load into waiting vans. |
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Huge oysters, terrifyingly substantial octopus tentacles, lightly curried saffron prawns and lobster, crayfish and crab meat, cod fillet and winkles. |
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When I lived here twenty-odd years ago, I had almost no money and gathered mussels for my soup-pot, nettles, pried the meat out of winkles with a pin. |
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Anyway, recently the children asked to try some whelks and winkles, which were so vinegary they'd lost all their flavour, and then Megan asked to try the crab. |
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To braise your winkles, wash 200g to remove any sand, and blanche them quickly in boiling water. |
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This makes winkles the sixth most important shellfish harvested in Scotland in terms of tonnage, and seventh most important in terms of value. |
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Hereafter, the winkles are commonly packed in smaller quantities, before being distributed to customers. |
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The official landings figures for Scotland indicate over 2,000 tonnes of winkles are exported annually. |
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