Crab Sandwich
Fresh crab meat (white and brown) on bread with lemon; seaside specialty.
Fresh crab meat (white and brown) on bread with lemon; seaside specialty.
Sweet white crab turned through a lemon mayonnaise on buttered brown bread, the acid worked into the bind so every flake carries the same lift. The English seaside crab sandwich at its cleanest.
Crab meat with chive mayonnaise; mild onion complements sweet crab.
Cockles and laverbread on toast leads with the seaweed: laver boiled to a dark mineral purée, often oatmeal-rolled and fried in bacon fat, the cockles the sweet briny answer. A Welsh breakfast.
Boiled shelled cockles dressed in malt vinegar on buttered soft white bread, eaten standing at a Swansea Market stall. A South Wales coast and Penclawdd Gower tradition.