private-Re: SC - Polish spice question

[LrdRas@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/28/99 7:59:13 PM Central Daylight Time, ariann at nmia.com 
writes:

> 
>  Just out of curiosity, is this why snails are milk-fed before cooked to
>  become escargot?  I've never had the milk-fed ones, so I don't know if
>  this is supposed to improve the flavour or the texture.


putting snails in milk gives them the trots!!!!  thus you wash them after the 
soaking in milk and you don't have any of that nastiness to eat once they are 
cooked.  same thing as "de-veining" a shrimp.

voldai
============================================================================

To be removed from the SCA-Cooks mailing list, please send a message to
Majordomo at Ansteorra.ORG with the message body of "unsubscribe SCA-Cooks".

============================================================================