Morecambe Bay Shrimps

[FISHGUTS]

If you haven't had these I'd urge anyone to give them a try.
They look like a tiny prawn, but are more fleshy and pack a real flavour punch.

Simply heat up in butter and some black pepper and serve with brown bread.

They are local to me and are well known in our area but probably not so much so in the rest of the country.

I'd urge anyone to try them if you haven't. I'll be having them as a starter on xmas day.
Google suppliers. I'd recomend buying them in the 250g brown shrimp multiple's rather than small already potted tubs.
Ocuk needs to give these a try!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/8552877/Morecambe-Bays-potted-brown-shrimps.html

 

[SINDRONE]

They certainly sound tasty, bet it's a real bugger to source them though

 

[glitch]

Most supermarkets sell the North Sea brown shrimp, usually cooked but occasionally available in their raw state from the fish counter.

The Morecambe Bay variety though can be a right bugger to find, as you rightly predict.

Great for risottos and all manner of pasta dishes and a lovely local-ish replacement for the oft-tasteless Atlantic-sourced prawn you'd usually find in your typical sandwich.

 

[FISHGUTS]

They certainly sound tasty, bet it's a real bugger to source them though

You can order them through Furness Fish and Game. http://www.morecambebayshrimps.com/Peeled_Brown_Shrimps.htm
I buy them through this company at a local market.
Looks like they aren't sending orders out now until after xmas.
They also have a stall at the borough market in london.

You can buy them from Lancaster Smokehouse.
http://www.lancastersmokehouse.co.uk/morecambe-bay-potted-shrimps/morecambe-bay-potted-shrimps-227g

 

[Youstolemyname]

I eat these all the time. I get mine from the owner of this place: http://www.pottedshrimp.co.uk/

He does them un potted from his market stall too. Caught in similar waters to Morecambe Bay...

Waitrose sell Morecambe Bay potted shrimps but the north sea ones in a packet taste nothing like them.

 

[glitch]

Waitrose sell Morecambe Bay potted shrimps but the north sea ones in a packet taste nothing like them.

But still quite tasty, if you like that sort of thing.

I find frying them off quickly in a spiced butter works wonders before you introduce them to the rest of your ingredients.

 

[Youstolemyname]

But still quite tasty, if you like that sort of thing.

I find frying them off quickly in a spiced butter works wonders before you introduce them to the rest of your ingredients.

Yeah don't get me wrong, the packet ones are ok but the Morecambe Bay ones just taste way way better.

 

[Liverpool-Lad]

Southport is just up the road from me and Ive never tried these but seen them. Ill put it on my list!

 

[Youstolemyname]

Wesley fish on tulketh st or the market sell them Liverpool Lad

 

[-BA-]

Yer I live in Southport and there used to be this old fella and his missus selling them out of one of the little shrimper's cottages up Fylde Rd way. Not sure if there are still there sadly.