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valcane

Joined: 22 Sep 2008
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 08 3:45 pm Post subject: Eating garden snails
How to make ordinary garden snails (Helix aspersa ) safe to eat eg. making sure they don't have toxins in their gut. How to cook them so they don't get too tough. How to disguise their appearance, I don't fancy them looking too much like the real thing.

gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 08 3:47 pm Post subject:
Hi there and welcome, valcane I'm sure there was a thread somewhere about preparing snails for eating. Have you used the Search facility yet ? Might be in Foraging section, or Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 08 3:57 pm Post subject:
These are a couple of old threads that might be useful. https://forum.downsizer.net/about12945.html https://forum.downsizer.net/about3621.html

Silas

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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Location: Staffordshire

Posted: Mon Sep 22, 08 4:01 pm Post subject: Re: Eating garden snails

valcane wrote:

How to make ordinary garden snails (Helix aspersa ) safe to eat eg. making sure they don't have toxins in their gut.

How to cook them so they don't get too tough.

How to disguise their appearance, I don't fancy them looking too much like the real thing.

I just hope I never ever get that hungry.

Oriole

Joined: 03 Apr 2009
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Posted: Fri Apr 03, 09 10:20 am Post subject:
For more on eating garden snails go to https://eatinggardensnails.blogspot.com/ This follows up a short piece on the One Show on 31st March 09, and in Wales on Sunday.

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Fri Apr 03, 09 10:48 am Post subject:
Welcome Oriole, so that was you on the One Show. I don't tend to watch it that often but saw the piece about snails and was very interested in your recipes. I'll have another go at them this year and try some of your recipes to see if I can find something I enjoy. I think I've under cooked them in the past so the cooking for an hour in a good stock sounds like just what I need to do.

Marches

Joined: 13 Dec 2011
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Location: Nr Peak District, England

Posted: Wed Dec 14, 11 11:34 pm Post subject:
I'll leave them to the Romans and French.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Wed Dec 14, 11 11:42 pm Post subject:
yum extra yum with the dpack grab ,feed ,clean and cook method

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