This section is from the book "The Old And New Cook Book", by Martha Pritchard Stanford. Also available from Amazon: The old and new cook book.
2 doz. snails.
2 cups minced mushrooms.
2 table spoons butter.
1 pod minced garlic.
1 teaspoon minced parsley.
2 minced green onions. 1 wine glass white wine. 1 teaspoon salt. 1 pod minced red pepper.
Prepare snails by boiling a few minutes in water mixed with a handful of wood-ashes, then take out and shake each shell and the snail will come out. Clean by washing several times in warm water. Mix mushrooms, onion, pepper, salt, parsley, garlic, butter and wine. Lay snails in bottom of platter and cover with mush-rooms. Bake one half hour.
1 doz. snails.
1 lb. cold boiled fish.
1 cup milk.
1 teaspoon salt.
2 hard boiled eggs.
1 cup fresh bread crumbs.
2 tablespoons butter. 1 minced green onion.
1 teaspoon minced parsley. 1/2 pod minced red pepper.
Prepare snails by boiling a few minutes in water mixed with a cup of wood ashes, then take out and shake each shell and the snail will come out. Clean by washing several times in warm water.
Soak bread in milk, put in boiled snails, fish, eggs, onions, parsley, pepper, salt and melted butter, chop this very fine, put in shells and bake. Serve with cream sauce.
 
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