A Burgoo

Ingredients

• meat of a soft-shelled turtle
• a rabbit
• salt pork cut into cubes
• a can of tomatoes
• peel your onions
• scrape your carrots
• peel your potatoes
• salt
• pepper

Method

1. 1

   Clean and dress the meats, cut into cubes.

2. 2

   Boil with water, add vegetables, and simmer.

3. 3

   Strain into cups before serving.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Stag Cook Book: Written for Men by Men (1922) by Carroll Mac Sheridan, page 11. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

A BURGOO Clean and dress the meat of a soft-shelled turtle, a painted turtle, a poker-dot turtle, or almost any other kind of turtle. Clean and dress a rabbit, a ruffled grouse, moose meat, elk meat, deer meat, sheep meat, in fact any sort of game. Cut yoi:^r meat into pieces about the size of inch cubes. Save the bones, especially the marrow bones, to put in with the meat. Add some salt pork cut into cubes, if you have it. If you have been thoughtful enough to supply your outfit with some ill-smelling, but palatable dry vegetables, they will add flavor to your burgoo, put all the material in a kettle, and fill the kettle half full of water. If you have beans and potatoes do not put them in with the meat because they will go to the bottom and scorch. While the stuff you have already put in the kettle is boiling, or simmering, peel your onions and quarter them, scrape your carrots and slice them, peel your potatoes, cut them up into pieces — about inch cubes. After your caldron has commenced to boil dump in the fresh vegetables, they will cool off the water and kill the boil. Do not let it come to a boil again, but put it over a slow fire and allow it to simmer* There should [58] WRITTEN FOR MEN BY ME N always be enough water to cover the vegetables. A can of tomatoes will add greatly to the flavor. Use no sweet vegetables like beets or sweet potatoes. Put the salt and pepper

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