Recipe: Snail Omelette

Title: Snail Omelette
Categories: Cheese/eggs
Yield: 4 servings

50 Petits-gris snails 1 Dried fig leaf
Salt and pepper 6 Eggs, separated
Fennel

Preparation time 15 minutes. Cooking time 1 hour. Starve the snails and
clean them well. Cook them for 1 hour in boiling water with added salt,
fennel and a fig leaf; drain and remove them from their shells. Prepare an
omelette mixture. Beat the egg yolks and fold in the stiffly beaten
whites. Make an omelette in the usual way and fill with the snails. Wine:
red or white Haut-Poitou, Anjou or Touraine. [From "Larousse Traditional
French Cooking."]