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                              SNAIL OMELETTE

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Serving Size  : 4    Preparation Time :0:00
Categories    : Cheese/eggs

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
  50                    Petits-gris snails
                        Salt and pepper
                        Fennel
   1                    Dried fig leaf
   6                    Eggs, separated

  Preparation time 15 minutes.  Cooking time 1 hour.
  Starve the snails and clean them well.  Cook them for
  1 hour in boiling water with added salt, fennel and a
  fig leaf; drain and remove them from their shells.
  Prepare an omelette mixture.  Beat the egg yolks and
  fold in the stiffly beaten whites.  Make an omelette
  in the usual way and fill with the snails. Wine: red
  or white Haut-Poitou, Anjou or Touraine. [From
  "Larousse Traditional French Cooking."]
 


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