Environmental Engineering Reference
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FIG
58.
Typically pitted and eroded limestone cliffs, with extensive areas of black tar lichen, at Mewslade. (Jonathan
Mullard)
Laver, which is still collected locally to make laver bread, can be found throughout the intertidal area.
Charles Frederick Cliffe in
The Book of South Wales
(1850) records in a footnote that 'seaweed bread or
Laver cake if not one of the delicacies is one of the edible curiosities of the Gower Coast. In Gower and
Swansea seaweed is rather a popular article of food, women attend Swansea market with baskets of laver
cakes, which are sold at 1d. or 2d. each. It is got close to low-watermark, washed well in sea water to free
it from sand, then boiled 12 hours and seasoned with salt.'
