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Steamed Salmon or Sewin

Llandysul, Ceredigion

Cockle-gathering tools - a large sieve, a rake and cocses.

Steamed or poached salmon was highly commendable for a person suffering from a stomach ailment.

Llandysul, Cardiganshire.

Fish

The Recipe

You will need

  • salmon steak (approximately one pound)
  • pepper and salt
  • butter
  • water
  • fennel (or vinegar)

Method

  1. Using a double saucepan, put a few fennel leaves in the lower one and fill it with water. 
  2. Season the salmon steak with pepper and salt, put a large knob of butter on top and place in the second saucepan, over the lower one. 
  3. Boil the water and allow the salmon to cook in this steam for about fifteen minutes.
  4. Alternatively, place the salmon steak on a greased enamel plate, rest it on top of a saucepan of boiling water and cover it with the saucepan lid. 
  5. Steam the fish in this way, allowing fifteen minutes per pound weight.

Film/Recording

Baked trout with bacon was once a breakfast dish in Wales. Quarrymen and miners used to go down to local streams on Sunday mornings and tickle enough trout for breakfast. Here's Rhian Gay demonstrating a modern way of preparing sewin with bacon

Baked trout with bacon was once a breakfast dish in Wales. Quarrymen and miners used to go down to local streams on Sunday mornings and tickle enough trout for breakfast. Here's Rhian Gay demonstrating a modern way of preparing sewin with bacon

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