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

[A F Murphy]

You would need the strong beer, I think!

Anne

Mark.S Harris wrote:

>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"
>>