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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2009 6:31:47 GMT
Yes, that is the official name of it in France, because that is the principal use of it -- to spread on the entrance to a snail shell after putting the snail inside and before popping everything into the oven until it all starts bubbling and perfuming the entire house.
Ingredients for Snail Butter :
100g butter 1 garlic clove 2 shallots parsley salt, pepper
Technical stages for Snail Butter :
Whisk the softened butter to make it softer and creamy. Peel the shallots and garlic. Chop finely. Mix all the ingredients with the butter. Season.
It can also be used on baked mussels or shrimp.
Garlic bread is unknown to the French, but when it is served to them in the U.S., they generally recognize that Americans serve snail butter on bread but forget to serve the snails.
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Post by hwinpp on Nov 4, 2009 8:09:18 GMT
We have that in Germany, lots of different kinds, ready made at supermarkets. It's called Kraeuterbutter, 'herbed' butter.
Do you actually make it yourself?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2009 8:21:57 GMT
No, of course not. I buy it at the frozen food store.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2009 12:05:40 GMT
I'm sorry, but it makes me feel ill...
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Post by spindrift on Nov 4, 2009 12:13:09 GMT
my stomach heaved when reading 'snail butter'...although I have, in the past, eaten them. I won't eat them again. I wonder would people eat slugs? (I mean people like us!).
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2009 13:16:02 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 4, 2009 16:07:15 GMT
Great. It's ten in the morning, and I'm craving those mussels.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 4, 2009 17:37:07 GMT
No jokes yet about how one milks snails?
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 4, 2009 18:18:56 GMT
....... then churns the tiny yields.
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Post by imec on Nov 4, 2009 19:14:50 GMT
We have that in Germany, lots of different kinds, ready made at supermarkets. It's called Kraeuterbutter, 'herbed' butter. Do you actually make it yourself? I had something like that (although maybe it was chive butter) on dark bread with white radish in Munich - with ein masse.
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Post by fumobici on Nov 4, 2009 19:19:59 GMT
Those mussels above may taste good but they surely can't taste like mussels.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2009 20:05:46 GMT
Anything covered with snail butter tastes mostly like snail butter. But since snail butter is delicious, nobody minds.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 5, 2009 0:32:30 GMT
It would also go well on pasta, or better still, Alsatian egg noodles.
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