Mantis shrimp. Squill. A flat tailed crustacean with a delicate flavour found from the eastern coast of North America to the Adriatic and Mediterranean. It is related to a crab rather than a prawn and bears some resemblance to a praying mantis, a kind of flat lobster which makes a chirp like a cricket and has lilac marks on its white flesh.
A variety of streaked, striped eating apple flushed with bright red with some russet, raised by Pastor Konrad Henzen in Elsen on the Rhine and introduced commercially in 1877. It became popular during the 1920s in the United Kingdom. This late-season variety is harvested from mid-October in South-East England and is at its best from December to March.
A dish from Trentino-Alto Adige and southern Germany of brains spread onto bread, dipped into batter and fried.
Scaly tooth mushroom or tiled hydnum, an edible fungus with a slightly bitter aftertaste.
