Cockles

Jenny Parish is the only person who has ever won South Australia’s two fiercely contested fruit cake competitions in the same year (2002). But her show cooking career had much humbler beginnings; the first things she ever made for competition were simple, old-fashioned cockles, baked for the Coonalpyn Show when she was nine.

Mum had quite often entered cooking and she said to me, ‘Why don’t you have a go?’ So I made cockles, and when we got there they were twice