Cornish Recipes - Cornish Pilchards

Cornish Pilchards are now often marketed as Cornish Sardines! It is an old cornish industry dating back from .... when sholes of pilchards could be found of the coast around July. They were brought ashore onthe fishing boats and then lined into baskets with plenty of salt. This was all that was needed to preserve them - they were kept likt this for a month till being transfered into wooden hogshead barrels. Each barrel could hold several thousand pilchards which where then pressed to create about 35 Liters!

Pichards are delicous with numerous accpiaments. Try them on toast with chopped tomatoes on top. One of the best and easiest way to heat pilchards is to pan fry them - simply delicious!

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Salting the pilchards.