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Title:How to Make them Goodies
Notice:Please Don't Start New Notes for Old Topics! Check 5.*
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Created:Tue Feb 18 1986
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4127
Total number of notes:31160

1576.0. "RACOONS LOVE 'EM (fresh water clams/mussels)" by WMOIS::C_GIROUARD () Thu Dec 29 1988 09:30

    Anyone out there help with this one. FRESH WATER CLAMS! Has anyone
    ever heard of, or know if they are edible. If so, are they prepared
    like their sea-faring cousins or do they require special treatment.
    
    If they can be eaten please give me a hint on the taste.
    
    Chip
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1576.1USMFG::PJEFFRIESthe best is betterThu Dec 29 1988 10:345
    
    Fresh water clams are known as mussels, they are edible, but if
    you harvest them your self, be sure that they are from clean sand
    beds or you can become very very ill. With so much poluted water
    around, I would be a bit cautious.
1576.2I NEED MORE!?WMOIS::C_GIROUARDThu Dec 29 1988 10:4210
    How about their preparation? Same as sea clams?
    
    I was swimming at this great lake up in North Conway, N.H. this
    summer and the bootom was literally "littered" with them. It was
    a sandy bottom and (not that it means the water is pure) the water
    was as clear as glass. Talk about temptation. I am a seafood freak
    from the word go. Love freshwater fish with a passion too (gimme
    a hornpout anyday!)
    
    Chip
1576.3WITNES::MACONERound Up the Usual SuspectsThu Dec 29 1988 10:465
    If these are the same as mussels. . .
    
    I love to steam mussels in white wine and garlic.
    
    I've seen mussels cooked the same way you cook clams all the time.
1576.4CIRCUS::KOLLINGKaren, Sweetie, & Holly; in Calif.Thu Dec 29 1988 15:442
    Mussels grow in salt water where I used to live.....
    
1576.5TULA::JBADERProspero AnoSat Dec 31 1988 22:216
    we would set them on the embers of the campfire and when the tops
    burst open we'd slip in a little butter, salt and pepper. They were
    delicious! Of course that was back in 1959, haven't had them that
    way since.
    
                                 -sunny-
1576.6Don't get confusedJACKAL::CARROLLThu Jan 05 1989 14:343
    Fresh water clams should not be confused with mussels.  Mussels are
    strictly a salt water shellfish that cling to just about any solid
    surface submerged in salt water i.e. pilings, oil rigs, etc.