SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #262
Par Leijonhufvud
parlei at ki.se
Thu Sep 11 20:24:33 PDT 1997
On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Philip & Susan Troy wrote:
> are too wonky even for me. I can't decide if the lack of slug recipes is
> because the author figured he didn't want to go too far, or if it is a
> safe bet that any recipe for snails will be good for slugs.
>
> I suppose it's possible they may be poisonous. Not likely, though.
Never tried them myself, but I have in my hand a table where they list
the nutritional content of some things of potntial food value for
wilderness survival:
Species Water (%) Protein Fat (g/kg f.w.)
(g/kg fresh wt)
- --------------------------------------------------------------
slugs 79.0 174 18
"ants eggs"[1] 70.0 143 25
Frogs legs 82.0 164 3
Moose 72.4 250 25
- --------------------------------------------------------------
[1] actually the larvae, IIRC
So, yes they are fully edible, even if I have (not yet) tried them myself.
Supposedly they foam up quite a bit (all the slime) if you just boil them,
so pre-roasting is recommended... The slug specified was "our" regular
"black forest slug" over here in Sweden. "Vanilla" slugs, so to say.
/UlfR
(who also could tell you the nutritional content of dandelions, acorns,
reeds and cattails, among other things)
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Par Leijonhufvud par.leijonhufvud at labtek.ki.se
"Let's not ask any questions we don't really want to hear the
answers to."
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