[Sca-cooks] scallops
Huette von Ahrens
ahrenshav at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 20 14:22:00 PDT 2009
According to one website, Alaska has three kinds of scallops in their waters, the Bay Scallop, the Rock Scallop and the Weathervane Scallop.
I found another website that states that China has introduced the Bay Scallop into their waters. I couldn't tell if these were farmed scallops or those allowed to live free. I have found several sites that state most of the Bay scallops sold in markets are farmed.
The Rock scallop is a West Coast scallop. It is protected here in California, but not in other states. I have had Rock scallops and they are deliscious. But I can only get them now in Oregon and Washington.
The Weathervane are very similar to Atlantic Sea Scallops, but are not quite as large.
Adamantius, according to what I found, dried scallops come from China and are call 'conpoy'.
Huette
--- On Sun, 4/19/09, Terry Decker <t.d.decker at att.net> wrote:
> From: Terry Decker <t.d.decker at att.net>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] scallops
> To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Date: Sunday, April 19, 2009, 6:54 AM
> > The only ones I remember seeing were frozen or fresh in
> plastic wrapped trays. Usually I see larger ones, inch and
> a half in diameter? which are sea scallops and smaller,
> cheaper ones about an inch in diameter called "bay
> scallops".
> >
> > Stefan
>
> It the "bay scallops" you saw were cheaper than
> the large scallops, then they were probably fakes punched
> out of the larger Atlantic scallops. A true Bay scallop,
> Argopecten irridians, is a small scallop that grows in
> protected waters primarily along the Altantic coast and off
> shore islands. The species is in general decline, probably
> due to a decline in eel grass, and the US harvest has been
> strictly controlled for decades, thus the real Bay scallop
> is expensive. It also has superior texture and a sweet
> flavor that make it worth the price.
>
> Bear
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