[Sca-cooks] snails

[Barbara Benson]

Greetings,

The reference was from a book that a friend brought back from England, I
believe that it was all period. I will see if I can get ahold of the book
again. Unfortunately the canned snails would not work. To paraphrase the
recepit:

Cut the fibers that are holding the snails in the shell & remove the snails.
Take milk and a small amount of salt and place the snails in the milk. Allow
the snails to eat the milk, cleaning out the excrament every few hours.
Change the milk on the second day and keep the snails fed. When the snails
are too large to fit back into the shells, sautee them in good butter and
garlic.

I remember it partucarly because I swore to myself that I would never
prepare a dish that had the word excrament in it.

I will see what I can do about getting you the original.

Glad Tidings,
Serena da Riva
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark S. Harris" <stefan at texas.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 12:55 AM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] snails


> Serena commented:
> > I'm not sure about the snails, but I have a lovely English recepit for
milk
> > fed snails.
>
>
> Is this period? If so, I'd like to consider it for this file:
>
> snails-msg        (13K)  8/30/00    Eating of snails in period. Recipes.
>
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-MEATS/snails-msg.html
>
> If it's not period, perhaps it would still work with the canned
> snails I see in the stores, which I haven't tried yet. That is one
> dish I *know* my wife won't even consider trying. :-(
> --
> THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
>     Mark S. Harris            Austin, Texas          stefan at texas.net
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