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what is laver bread i need help coz i'm scared to try it plz help!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

go to this website

http://www.leitesculinaria.com/food_history/laver.html

Reader Shelley Fodor wrote in asking about the Welsh specialty known as Laver Bread, a food traditionally prepared for the feast day of Wales's patron saint, St. David. This no doubt is more than she wanted to know about the subject.

Laver or purple laver (also known as black butter, purple seavegetable, or sloke) is scientifically known as Porphyra umbilicalis. In Chinese it's jee choy; in Gaelic it's sleabchan, sleabhach, or sleadai; in Swedish it's veckad purpurtang — although it's best known, culinarily, as nori, the dried sheets of seaweed used to wrap maki-type sushi. Other Porphyra species that have been used as food include P. linearis, P. tenera, and P. yezoensis.

They're harvested in winter at low tide, when they're found attached to vertical surfaces such as rocks or piers. Laver is prepared in the British Isles by slow simmering, as long as five hours, to form a thick gelatinous puree. It can be purchased online in canned form from Wales Direct.

Laver bread, or Bara Lawr as it known in Wales, is usually served with bacon and/or cockles, the bacon being from the back not the side of the pig, more like Canadian bacon than American bacon.

The recipe is almost absurdly simple:



1. Combine four parts prepared laver (either fresh or canned) with one part finely cut oatmeal. Do not use American-style rolled oats.

2. Form mixture into small cakes, about 2 inches in diameter and 3/4-inch thick. Roll in additional oatmeal to coat.

3. Fry in hot bacon fat until golden brown.

4. Drain on paper towel and serve.



Laver bread seasoned with a little freshly squeezed orange juice is sometimes served as an accompaniment to Welsh mutton, a high-quality meat from small local sheep. A paste of prepared laver flavored with lemon juice, olive oil, salt and pepper is also spread on fried bread to form a sort of Celtic crostini.

Nutritionally, laver is a very desirable food, yielding high protein (15–37%), low fat (less than 2.5%), good vitamin C, calcium, and iodine, along with traces of other minerals.

Answer 2

Pronounced "Larver", laver is an edible seaweed commonly found on the south west coast of Wales (around Swansea). Laver has to be prepared at great length by washing many times, and boiled for up to 5 hours and drained to form a gelatinous puree. It is mixed with fine oatmeal, formed into small cakes and fried in bacon fat. Laver Bread is often served with bacon.
Of course, in olden times, and even now in the countryside, there was a hot cooking "range" constantly available, so extended cooking times for things like laver and mutton were no problem. Nowadays it is less convenient.

I have no idea why it is called "bread"!

um yeah, i wouldn't eat it

Answer 3

Welsh seaweed dish: a Welsh dish made from boiled seaweed mixed with oatmeal, formed into cakes, and fried, traditionally in bacon fat. Sold as a dark green purée, laver bread is also used in sauces or served plain, heated with butter.

Answer 4

Laver is a kind of seaweed. It's Welsh. So... seaweed in bread. I've never tried it, though. Sounds kind of weird to me.