[Sca-cooks] Snails

[Daniel Myers]

On Feb 10, 2006, at 9:56 PM, Micheal wrote:

> Anyone got a good book on snails in period?


No books, but there's a recipe in Ouverture de Cuisine (France, 1604)  
for Snail Pie.

To make snail pies. Take snails that have been well cooked & washed  
as appropriate, & cut them largely with a knife, & add nutmeg,  
pepper, butter, having been a quarter hour in the oven take four egg  
yolks beaten with a little Spanish wine, remove the pie from the  
oven, & cast the sauce in the pie, & let it again in the oven for an  
"Our Father", & no more.


- Doc


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