Take out your can of Pilchards in Tomato sauce preferably Luck Star brand it has more flavour. Open and clean the fish by taking the bones out then put all the Pilchards in a large bowl

Now take your 7 slices of bread break them into small pieces and put them in the bowl with the Pilchards refer to the picture to see an example of the bread pieces

Finely Chop your onion. Take your handful of mint and also chop doesnt have to be too fine.

Take chopped onion and mint add it to the bread and pilchards in the bowl no egg required here.

Using your hand mix all these ingredients until they blent together like a thick paste the bread and pilchards must become one. This is really important ensure it's mixed really well refer to picture for example.

You can now make your fish cakes by taking a table spoon full of the mixture make it into a nice round ball then press it to form a patty

Pour oil into a pan temperature must just be above medium (same heat you use when frying an egg) let the oil heat up a then take your fish cake and fry put a lid on for 40 seconds and flip using a spatchular then 40 seconds again flip to ensure they dont get too brown. dont fry them too long cause the pilchards are cooked you just simply want to brown the fish cake and cook a little its already tasty once brown after flipping 4 times you can take out if its soft it will harden once it cools down