Ingredients
- 100 snails (canned)
- 12 anchovy fillets (canned)
- 1 quatre-epices
- 475 gr breadcrumbs (fresh white)
- 425 gr butter
- 120 ml wine (white)
- 26 gr shallots
- 14 gr parsley
- 8 gr garlic (crushed)
- 8 gr salt
- 3 gr pepper
Preparation time 25 minutes. Cooking time 8 minutes. Make snail butter by working the butter with a mixture of chopped parsley, garlic, shallots and anchovy fillets. Season with the salt, pepper and spice, then work through a fine sieve. [Quatre-epices is a plant from the Antilles (West Indies) whose fruit is at the same time reminiscent of pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg and clove. --mkm] Place a piece of butter the size of a bean inside each snail shell. Add the snail, then close up the shell with some more butter, pressing it down firmly. Arrange the snails on a dish and moisten with the wine if liked. Sprinkle with the breadcrumbs and bake in a hot oven for 8 minutes. Dry white wines: Macon-Vire, Bourgogne-Aligote, Rully, Pouilly-Fuisse. [From "Larousse Traditional French Cooking."]