Snail Dough Maker

Thankfully it's for making dough to wrap snails in, rather than making dough out of snails.

source: Catalog of the Unusual (1973), by Harold H. Hart

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Posted By: Alex - Sat Mar 16, 2024
Category: Food | Technology

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It seems something was lost in the translation. I googled "snails in Hungarian cuisine" and came up with no mention of the actual gastropods (other than one breathless headline "Hungarian ancestors ate snails!"). More likely, snails in this context are a pastry, a la this link: https://zsuzsaisinthekitchen.blogspot.com/2011/11/cocoa-snails-with-puff-pastry.html

Posted by ges on 03/16/24 at 08:23 PM

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