Ingredients

• cockles
• salt water
• a little oatmeal
• salt and pepper
• white sauce (unsweetened)
• cheese or short-crust pastry

Method

• Soak the cockles in salt water overnight, adding a little oatmeal to the water. (The oatmeal helps to clean the cockles.)
• Then boil the cockles in clean water until the shells open.
• Take out of their shells, put in a pie dish, season with salt and pepper and pour the white sauce over them.
• Cover the sauce with a thick layer of grated cheese or with short-crust pastry.
• Bake in a hot oven until golden brown.

South Pembrokeshire.