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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 eryn go- 
root ; boil all the above together till they become a jelly, 
and let them be strained oflP. 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. It 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 Sivelling 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 ^ Cookes Guided — 
Mucilaginous Broth. — Put a cut-up chicken, a pound 
of veal cutlet, and a calPs 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 
