A woman has been accused of serving family members milk with shavings of dead skin — from her feet.

Sarah Preston Schrock, 56, is charged with second-degree assault for allegedly contaminating the drinks of Jessica Whitney Hurry and Allison Depriest at her Mechanicsville, Virginia home on Monday.

Ms Depriest was drinking a glass of milk at dinner when she began choking and coughed up what looked like skin, according to court papers obtained by Southern Maryland Newspapers Online.

Ms Hurry also began gagging. The women put the detritus through a strainer and found that it was dry, flaky flesh, the court papers state.

Ms Hurry told police Schrock has dry feet caused by diabetes and that she “has trays in her room with the same kind of dead skin shavings that had come off of her feet.”

Schrock, found at a local motel, “denied having any involvement” in the disgusting incident.