Green Turtle Soup

Ingredients

• Open a can of preserved turtle
• with 4 quarts of consommé
• if handy, add 1/2 cup sherry wine
• Rub fine the yolks of 3 hard-boiled eggs
• add the yolk of 1 raw egg
• 1/2 teaspoonful butter
• a little salt
• some flour

Method

1. 1

   Melt the stock, cut turtle meat, simmer with consommé and mushrooms.

2. 2

   Prepare mock eggs with egg yolks, butter, salt, and flour.

3. 3

   Boil egg balls, add to turtle meat and pour soup over.

As published

This recipe was extracted from European and American cuisine (1914) by Lemcke, Mrs. Gesine Knubel, page 42. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

add the yolk of 1 raw egg, Vs teaspoonf ul butter, a little salt, and some flour ; form this into small balls, and boil them in salted water 5 minutes. When the meat is done take it out and cut it into small pieces ; place it in a saucepan and cover with a little broth to keep it warm; then strain the remaining broth into a clean saucepan, return it to the fire, melt ly, ounce of butter, add ly, tablespoonf ul flour, stir for a few minutes ; add it to the soup ; season to taste with salt, and, if handy, add y^ cup sherry wine ; i)oil ten minutes. Put the egg balls and meat in the tureen, pour the soup over all, and serve. Oreen-^ortle 8onp. — Open a x^an of preserved turtle and set it in hot water until the stock melts ; then take out the meat, cut it into piece? and set it with some of the liquor in a warm place ; put the remaining liquor with ^y^ quarts of consommS over the fire ; add, if handy, a few fine-cut mushrooms, caver and boU y^ hour. At the same time simmer in a stna^l sauxsepan 2 fine-cut onions, 1 bay leaf, a little thyme, marjoram, sweet basil, 3 cloves, 12 wholo pep^rs, with y^ pjinjb Madeira wiue, 20 miputes. jShortly before serving strain this win^e essence through a fine piece of muslin. 60 SOUPS, Etc pr9S8 it out, and add it with a little Cayenne pepper to the sonp. Put the turtle meat in the tureen ; have some mock eggs prepared as follows : Bub fine the yolks of 3 hard-boiled eggs,

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