Berwick cockle
The Berwick shop of William Cowe and Sons, former manufacturers of the Berwick cockle
ABerwick cockleis a white-colouredsweetwith red stripes, originally associated withBerwick-upon-Tweed.Cockles have been made since 1801.[1]Their moulding process gives them a flattened shape with an equatorial rib. They are sold loose by weight in paper bags, traditionally in "quarters" —a quarter of a pound. They were originally made and sold in Berwick by the Cowe family until their shop closed in 2010.[2]The current version is described by internet vendors as a "crumbly" mint, while the original Cowe product was a hard mint.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^Norman Schur with Eugene Ehrlich.British English A to Zed.Revised and Updated Edition. Checkmark Books: New York, 2001.
- ^"End of era as 'Cockle' Cowe's closes after 200 years".Berwick Advertiser.2010-02-24.Retrieved2016-07-18.
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