Title: Snail omelette
 Categories: Cheese/eggs
      Yield: 4 Servings
 
     50    Petits-gris snails
           Salt and pepper
           Fennel
      1    Dried fig leaf
      6    Eggs, separated
 
  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. [