Baked Terrapins, Maryland Style

Ingredients

• three terrapins
• one breakfast cupful of butter
• one teacupful of flour
• one teaspoonful of salt
• one teaspoonful of black pepper
• the juice of a lemon

Method

1. 1

   Half fill a baking pan with dry gravel or sand, put it into an oven and make it quite hot; wash well three terrapins that have been killed, remove their heads, put them with the top shell downward in the sand and bake in the oven for an hour.

2. 2

   Take them out, remove the under shell, gall bag and entrails and loosen the meat without taking it out of the back shell.

3. 3

   Pull off the legs, skin them and lay them on top.

4. 4

   Mix butter, flour, salt, black pepper, and lemon juice, put a little more than one tablespoonful into each terrapin, place them back in the oven for a few minutes, take them out and serve on a napkin spread on a dish.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Cook Book, by "Oscar" of the Waldorf (1896) by Oscar Tschirky, page 57. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Baked Terrapins, Maryland Style. Half fill a baking pan with dry gravel or sand, put it into an oven and make it quite hot; wash well three terrapins that have been killed, remove their heads, put them with the top shell downward in the sand and bake in the oven for an hour. Take them out, remove the under shell, gall bag and entrails and loosen the meat without taking it out of the back shell. Pull off the legs, skin them and lay them on the top. Put one breakfast cupful of butter in a basin to soften, mix in one teacup- ful of flour, one teaspoonful each of salt and black pepper and the juice of a lemon

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