D EDIBLE BRITISH MOLLUSKS. 



" Mock Asses' Milk. — One pound of snails layed in 

 salt and water for 2 days, and then cleaned and washed, 

 a quarter of a pound of barley, 3 pennyworth of eryngo- 

 root; boil all the above together till they become a jelly, 

 and let them be strained off. Half a pint night and 

 morning for a grown person, and J of a pint for a child. 

 It must be taken warm, and a little milk and sugar 

 added after it is warmed. Tt is an excellent remedy for 

 consumption and any weakness." 



"For a Consumption. — 24 garden snails, 2 sheeps' 

 trotters, half an ounce of comfrey-root, one quart of 

 spring- water, a quart of milk ; boil all together till re- 

 duced to half the quantity ; take a cup of this night and 

 morning." 



" For a Swelling on the Joints. — Take 3 handfulls of 

 shell snails (off a rabbit-warren), pound them very fine, 

 and mix them with some new milk (not too thin) ; put 

 them between two pieces of fine linen cloth, and apply 

 them on the part. This is to be applied once a day, or 

 as often as it gets dry." 



A modern authority, Francatelli, gives the following 

 recipe in his ' Cook's Guide': — 



Mucilaginous Broth. — Put a cut-up chicken, a pound 

 of veal cutlet, and a calf s foot into a stewpan, with 3 

 pints of water, boil and skim ; then add a dozen cray- 

 fish and a pint of garden snails, both bruised raw in a 

 mortar; add also a handful of balm, burrage and chervil, 

 3 ounces of prepared Iceland moss, and a small quan- 

 tity of salt. The broth must boil very gently by the 

 side of the fire for about two hours without much re- 

 duction, and when done is to be strained into a basin 

 for use. 



Note. — This is a powerful demulcent, and is much in 



