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Turtle Soup

  • 3/4 cup butter melted
  • 9 ounces onions chopped
  • 6 ounces celery diced
  • 1 1/2 pounds Bayou Turtle
  • 3 ounces good brandy
  • 3 ounces good wine
  • 1 teaspoon paprika
  • 2 tablespoons flour
  • 1 1/4 gallons beef stock
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 4 cloves
  • 2 sprigs thyme
  • 6 parsley stems
  • Salt and pepper
  • 3 hard-cooked eggs, diced
  • 1 tablespoon Worcestershire
  • 3 ounce Madeira wine
  • 2 ounces brandy (additional)
Put butter in saucepan, add onion and celery. Fry for a few minutes. Add the Bayou turtle (Cajun), fry for about 10 minutes, then add 3 ounces brandy. Ignite the brandy and let burn; add the wine, paprika and flour and mix well; then add the beef stock. Make a satchel of the spices, add to the soup and season with the salt and pepper; bring to a boil and simmer for about 2 hours.
Remove satchel; add remaining ingredients season well and serve at once with a little chopped parsley sprinkled on the soup in the tureen.

Mock Turtle Soup

  • a knuckle of veal weighing 3 or 4 pounds
  • 1 cow-heel
  • 1 large onion stuck with cloves
  • 1 bunch of sweet herbs
  • 2 blades of mace
  • salt to taste
  • 8 peppercorns
  • 1 glass of sherry
  • 12 balls of stuffing,
  • lemon juice to taste
  • 2 quarts of water
  • 1 tablespoonful of anchovy, or Harvey's sauce.
Procure a knuckle of veal weighing 3 or 4 pounds, 1 cow-heel, 1 large onion stuck with cloves, 1 bunch of sweet herbs, 2 blades of mace, salt to taste, 8 peppercorns, 1 glass of sherry, 12 balls of stuffing, lemon juice to taste, 2 quarts of water. Put all the ingredients, except the balls of stuffing and the lemon juice, in an earthen jar and stew for 6 hours. Do not open till cold. When wanted for use, skim off all the fat, and strain carefully; place it on the fire, cut up the meat into half inch squares, put it, with the forcemeat balls and lemon juice, into the soup and serve. It can be flavored with a tablespoonful of anchovy, or Harvey's sauce.

Clear Mock Turtle Soup

  • Take a calf's head
  • 1/2 pound of gravy beef,
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 turnip,
  • 1/2 head of celery
  • 1 onion stuck with 3 cloves
  • bunch of herbs
  • 10 peppercorns
  • blade of mace
  • salt
  • 3 ounces of bacon or ham
  • 1 glass of sherry
  • 2 quarts of water
  • 1/2 juice of a lemon
Take a calf's head, 1/2 pound of gravy beef, 1 carrot, 1 turnip, 1/2 head of celery, 1 onion stuck with 3 cloves, bunch of herbs, 10 peppercorns, blade of mace, salt, 3 ounces of bacon or ham, 1 glass of sherry, 2 quarts of water, 1/2 juice of a lemon. Wash and bone the head. Tie the meat in a cloth and chop the bones, put the meat, bones and half the vegetables and seasoning in a stew pan with the water, allow it to boil up and skim well. Simmer about 3 hours. Take the head up and strain the stock into a basin. When the stock is cold, carefully remove the fat. Put the stock into a stew pan with the remainder of the vegetables, and the meat finely shredded. Whisk over the fire until the soup is just on the boil. Draw it on one side, and allow it to simmer gently for 10 minutes; when clarified, strain through a clean clothe, add the stock, some force-meat balls, and pieces of the head served in the soup.
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