Clokie’s Sloke

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
A Year in a Scots Kitchen

By Catherine Brown

Published 1996

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Ingredients

  • 15 g (½ oz) dried sloke
  • 2-3 tablespoons flour for drying

Method

Put the sloke into water and leave for half and hour or so to rehydrate.

Heat oil to 190C/375F. Remove sloke from the water, shake off excess water then dry off thoroughly in flour. Dip in batter twirling it round to coat thoroughly, lift out and allow excess batter to drip off.

Fry quickly in oil for about a minute, turning once, until a light gold. Do not over