Gopher Soup

Ingredients

• Gopher is a dry land turtle
• Make roux of flour
• and lard
• and onion
• pour in two quarts of boiling water
• a can of tomatoes
• salt and pepper to taste
• put in a tumbler of claret
• and a lemon sliced

Method

1. 1

   Make roux of flour, lard, and onion.

2. 2

   Cook gopher in roux, then pour in boiling water and add tomatoes.

3. 3

   Season and cook slowly for two hours.

4. 4

   Add claret and lemon before serving.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Southern Recipes (1913) by Laura Thornton Knowles, page 2. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

about two quarts of boiling water if needed. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Fresh corn is very good in this. Serve with rice. CRAB SOUP A heaping dessertspoonful of flour, a heaping tablespoonful butter, one quart of milk, season with salt, pepper, spices, and a wineglass of sherry. Put flour and butter in one pot; milk with spices (tied up in cloth) in another pot; when the milk boils, add it slowly to the flour and butter, then add crab meat, and sherry when you pour into tureen. GOPHER SOUP Gopher is a dry land turtle. Make roux of flour and lard and onion, then put in gopher, cook a few minutes in roux, then pour in two quarts of boiling SOUPS 5 water, a can of tomatoes, salt and pepper to taste. Tie in a thin piece of doth some whole spice and cloves, put this in, cook all slowly for two hours, dien put in a tumbler of claret, and a lemon sliced

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