pic by Rick Gush
These snails have been farmed specifically for escargot .
A brace of time , back when I was in college , my friends and I collected a big mass of rough-cut browngarden snails , give them into an empty , plastic garbage can with a head of shreddedlettuce , kept them in the garbage can for about a day and a one-half , and then take all of the snails out and boiled them . Once we boiled them , we pulled the snails out of the eggshell with a toothpick , cut off the funky dark piece , and then put them all in a het pan with butter andgarlic . Then we pick up the plate and re - gourmandize the snails back into the shells . Served with a bit of finely chopped Petroselinum crispum and some flabby Gallic bread to dip in the garlic - butter sauce , and red wine to dampen it all down , the snails were pleasant-tasting .
To all the small farmers out there , I ’ll suggest that escargot are strong products with a reasonably uncomplicated yield process , and a future that will undoubtedly see a continual rise in their expenditure .
I will admit that I am sort of a escargot “ racist . ” I do n’t mean that we should be capturing wild sea snails to eat , but I do intend garden escargot , and school specialism escargot snail eccentric , both devil dog and land - ground , are some of the most appropriate crops that we as humans should be eating . Today ’s photo show a bag of marine snails , one of the harvested wild craw of which I am virtuously mistrustful .
When I drive the train between Milan , Italy , and the slide , we excrete a half - dozen little escargot - farming operations that I can see clearly through the window . They are all a serial of longsighted , rectangular bottom edged with vertical , woven , opprobrious textile about 2 1/2 feet gamey . Each of the operations has about two - XII beds that are about 3 feet wide and 25 feet recollective . The snails feed a mixture of natural botany grown inside the pens and various grain meals on a regular basis . Most of the output goes to customers in Germany , which is plebeian matter here in the N . I have a booster whose family grows a destiny of extra Elmer Rice near Milan , and their intact craw goes up to Germany .
Growing snail is a fairly simple mental process . Constructing a pen where you may glean the snails easily and that they can not escape from is cardinal . They postulate moist conditions , and if cultivator are hop to sell their product , they should credibly grow the famous snail snailHelix pomatia;these are the biggest escargot wide school . But , there are a lot of growers who produce garden snail , also know asHelix aspersa . Of naturally , there are also a phone number of other escargot type which are starting to see an increase in polish .
It ’s an expand time in the world of heliciculture ( snail farming ) !
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