Cooked Periwinkles

Preparation info
  • About

    1 cup

    periwinkle meats
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
New York Times Menu Cookbook

By Craig Claiborne

Published 1966

  • About

Ingredients

  • 1 quart periwinkles
  • 3 tablespoons salt

Method

  1. Rinse the periwinkles well and place them in a one-and-one-half-quart saucepan. Add water to cover to the depth of one inch, and the salt.

  2. Bring the periwinkles to a boil and simmer until the operculum (a tiny “door” on each periwinkle) falls off. This may require from ten to twenty minutes.

  3. Drain the periwinkles and cool them. Remov