ESCARGOTS BOURGUIGNONNE

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Serve with warm french bread to soak up the snail butter.






Ingredients

  • 3/4 lb sweet butter
  • 1 garlic clove
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1 pinch nutmeg
  • 2 tbs shallots
  • 2 tbs chopped parsley
  • 1 dash pepper
  • 4 dozen snails
  • 2 tbs dry white wine

Preparation

Step 1

For the butter, cream in a bowl the butter and add all ingredients except snails.
Preheat oven to 400. Wash and clean the snails according to package directions.
Put a little of the snail butter into the bottom of each shell; add the snails; and fill the shells
with more of the snail butter. Place the shells in small dishes with open ends up. Sprinkle
w/dry bread crumbs. Pour 2 tbs dry white wine in bottom of each dish. Bake for 8 minutes.