[Sca-cooks] worm recipe for Cindy's contest

[Mark.S Harris]

I just found a (the?) worm recipe while editing the exotic-meats-msg
file in the Florilegium:

> Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 22:19:47 +0100
> From: "Cindy M. Renfrow" <cindy at thousandeggs.com>
> Subject: Re: SC - Reuses for leftover worms
>
> Here you go, Ras:
>
> 17th c. Spring Tonic: "take a quart of earthworms, scour with salt, slit
> open, wash with their own filth, put in a stone mortar and beat" (Foley,
> Ruth H.  "Snail Water," Herb Quarterly.  Vol. 4.  1979, p. 16) The worms
> were mixed with herbs and toasted snails; the water derived from this was
> then drunk with strong beer.
>
> Cindy Renfrow/Sincgiefu
> cindy at thousandeggs.com
> Author & Publisher of "Take a Thousand Eggs or More, A Collection of 15th
> Century Recipes" and "A Sip Through Time, A Collection of Old Brewing
> Recipes"

Stefan li Rous
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