How to cook and prepare garden snails?

These are the large garden snails (Helix helix) that the French and Spanish eat. We have a plague in the garden so I though to put them to gastronomic use. Any recipes/advice much appreciated.

How to cook and prepare garden snails?
You will have to purge them by feeding them on one food, like carrots or lettuce, for between 3 and 5 days, and then starve them for 2 days to clean their guts and to make them less slimey.You can omit the starvation bit if you are hungry for snails now. Keep them alive in a well ventilated container with room to move, wire across the top to stop them escaping.Cook in well salted boiling water with stock vegetables, carrot, onion, celery and a splash vinegar.Cook for 10 mins. remove from shell with a pin when cooled. Re-heat in garlic butter to serve.
Reply:I would make sure you really have the right snails first. Then do a search for French cuisine, I think its garlic snails that they eat the most. Happy eating.
Reply:eeewwww!!!!!! that's nasty
Reply:OY!
Reply:I think you should go to a French restaurant and sell them your snails instead of eating it yourself.


You'd get rid of them %26amp; make money too!
Reply:Hang on..wait, yeah, I think I just vomited a little...