Limpets
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Cooked in their shells with garlic and olive oil is very good as well. Had them for the first time in Lanzarote 2 weeks ago, takes a bit of getting used to but worth the effort
In Archaeology we are told that the nutritional equivalent of one red deer is 31,360 limpets or 156,800 cockles.
I think it must be up there with the rabbit starvation thing.
Thing is that even children can gather shellfish while they might not be ready to take down a deer.
So, nutritious, but really only in quantity.
Gathering shellfish is hard cold and tiring work. Looks easy, but I reckon if there were any other food available that folks would have gone for it rather than all those in the shell middens/mounds.
Then again, I can't eat shellfish, but my brother says they're tasty, so maybe they were just the peanuts/popcorn of the past
I think it must be up there with the rabbit starvation thing.
Thing is that even children can gather shellfish while they might not be ready to take down a deer.
So, nutritious, but really only in quantity.
Gathering shellfish is hard cold and tiring work. Looks easy, but I reckon if there were any other food available that folks would have gone for it rather than all those in the shell middens/mounds.
Then again, I can't eat shellfish, but my brother says they're tasty, so maybe they were just the peanuts/popcorn of the past
woodspirits
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
I tried a couple of common limpets raw straight out of the net when I worked on the fishing trawlers, horrible lumps of rubber.
Limpets are only good for bait in my humble opinion.! Give me limpits, and I will use them to catch some nice tasty, and nutritional crabs or prawns.
No contest.!
No contest.!
I’ve eaten limpets cooked in a flash fire, they were ok but then again I’m not a fussy eater. I would be wary of eating them raw, depending on where they were gathered.
Foul lumps of phlegm - limpets and oysters for that matter!
I like limpets.
They have the same taste and texture as whelks. So if you like one you'll like the other.
We cooked them by placing them on a flat stone then piling coals on top. Give them 5 minutes and eat.
They have the same taste and texture as whelks. So if you like one you'll like the other.
We cooked them by placing them on a flat stone then piling coals on top. Give them 5 minutes and eat.
In Archaeology we are told that the nutritional equivalent of one red deer is 31,360 limpets or 156,800 cockles.
I think it must be up there with the rabbit starvation thing.
Thing is that even children can gather shellfish while they might not be ready to take down a deer.
So, nutritious, but really only in quantity.
Gathering shellfish is hard cold and tiring work. Looks easy, but I reckon if there were any other food available that folks would have gone for it rather than all those in the shell middens/mounds.
Then again, I can't eat shellfish, but my brother says they're tasty, so maybe they were just the peanuts/popcorn of the past
I guess what we don’t know is what the stocks were like back then. Similarly to fish stocks we could have had 3/4 times the amount we have today, that would make things easier.
….I remember there being a lot more limpets as recently as 40 years ago.…It’s probably only my opinion but I blame the reduced numbers on pollution.
Shellfish store energy in form glycogen oysters in particular store a lot sugars for winter n can be v sweet,this energy is destroyed on cooking thoughIn Archaeology we are told that the nutritional equivalent of one red deer is 31,360 limpets or 156,800 cockles.
I think it must be up there with the rabbit starvation thing.
Thing is that even children can gather shellfish while they might not be ready to take down a deer.
So, nutritious, but really only in quantity.
Gathering shellfish is hard cold and tiring work. Looks easy, but I reckon if there were any other food available that folks would have gone for it rather than all those in the shell middens/mounds.
Then again, I can't eat shellfish, but my brother says they're tasty, so maybe they were just the peanuts/popcorn of the past
I’ve eaten and thoroughly enjoyed plenty of raw oysters but the idea of eating raw limpets never appealed to me
I have old recipes for what we would now called stews, but contain things like whole wee birds, hares, and oysters, all cooked in a lidded cauldron, I wonder if cooking the limpets and then letting them stew would end up relaxing the muscle (which is really all it is that's edible) enough to stop it being like a wee dod of rubber.
