Ingredients

  • 100 snails
  • vinegar
  • 2 sprigs thyme
  • 12 bay leaf
  • 1 sprig basil
  • 1 orange rind, Pared
  • 7 ounces pork rinds
  • 12 cup olive oil
  • 12 lb fatty bacon
  • 6 tablespoons walnuts, shelled and ground
  • 4 canned anchovy fillets
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • salt and pepper
  • 3 tablespoons flour
  • 6 12 lbs spinach leaves, trimmed

Method

  • Starve the snails for at least 8 days, then wash them in several changes of water until clean.
  • Rinse with vinegar, then drain.
  • Place the snails in a saucepan of boiling water with the thyme, bay leaf, basil, orange peel and pork rind.
  • When the snails are almost cooked, drain them and remove them from their shells.
  • Brown the snails in olive oil with the very finely-chopped fatty bacon, the ground walnuts, anchovy fillets, crushed garlic and salt and pepper.
  • Thicken the mixture with the flour, then serve on a bed of spinach.