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                     ESCARGOT AND CHANTERELLE PIZZA

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Serving Size  : 1    Preparation Time :0:00
Categories    : Entrees

 Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
  1       x            French bread dough
                       -(Craig Claiborne's
                       -French bread recipe
                       -works well)
 10       oz           French snails
                       -(the smaller the better
                       -burgundy snails taste
                       -best to me)
  2       oz           Chanterelle mushrooms,
                       -dried
  1 1/2   lb           Raclette cheese,
                       -shredded
  8       oz           Tomato sauce
  2                    Garlic cloves
  2       tb           Parsley, fresh
    1/2   lb           Butter

 Make the French Bread dough recipe at least 1 day
 beforehand if you can. Roll the dough out into the
 shape of a pizza, put it on a pizza pan,and set it
 aside. It will keep in the refrigerator overnight.

 Prepare the dried mushrooms according to published
 recipes (soak, wash, cut, resoak, wash, drain).

 If the snails are too large (larger than a garlic
 clove), then cut them in pieces.  Drain the snails
 well.  Melt the butter in a baking dish, add the
 snails, crushed garlic, about 1/2 salt and ground
 black pepper to taste.

 Put the bread-dough pan on the top rack of the oven
 and the snails on the bottom rack of the oven, and
 cook them both for 10 minutes.  Take them out.

 Spread the tomato sauce in an even layer on the bread,
 then sprinkle the Raclette cheese over it.  Add the
 snails, and then the mushrooms.  Sprinkle with fresh
 parmesan cheese, salt and pepper.  Bake at 425 degrees
 F. in the top rack for 12 minutes (bottom rack will
 burn the crust).

 NOTES:

 *  A pizza-like dish smothered in escargot and
 mushrooms -- I was recently at a potluck party where
 everyone was asked to bring an interpretation of
 "French pizza," what pizza would have tasted like if
 it had been invented in Rennes instead of in Naples. I
 concocted this dish for the occasion, and it was a
 success. If you aren't sure you like escargot, this is
 not the dish to experiment with! Yield: 1 large pizza.

 *  The first time I made this recipe I made it with
 morel mushrooms.  Their flavor overwhelmed even the
 garlic snails.  It was good, but it didn't have the
 balance I was looking for.  Chanterelles seem to fit
 better.  If you're unable to find or afford
 chanterelles, you can substitute Chinese straw
 mushrooms, which are available in cans wherever
 Chinese groceries are sold. European dried mushrooms
 seem always to have rocks and dirt in them; Asian
 dried mushrooms never do.  I guess the Asians wash
 them better before they dry them. It's impossible to
 get all of the rocks out.

 *  Raclette cheese is so much better than any other
 kind of cheese in this recipe that it is worth looking
 for.  If you absolutely cannot get it, use fondue
 cheese or a Gruyere.

 *  Raw butter also tastes more "authentic" in this
 recipe.  What you really want to use is Normandy
 butter, but it's hard to get in North America. Alta
 Dena raw butter is available in California; it makes a
 noticeable difference in the flavor of the escargot. I
 don't know of any other states in which it is legal to
 buy raw butter.

 : Difficulty:  easy to moderate.
 : Time:  30 minutes.
 : Precision:  approximate measurement OK.

 : Brian Reid
 : DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto CA
 : [email protected]    -or-
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