Green Turtle Soup
From The household (of the Detroit free press), 1886
Serves 12
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Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 516. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
GREEN TURTLE SOUP. A glass of wine, two onions, bunch of sweet herbs, juice of one lemon, five quarts of water. Chop up the coarser parts of the turtle SOUPS. 625 (directions for cooking turtle given in " Shell Fish "), with the entrails and bones. Add to them four quarts of water, and stew four hours with the herbs, onions, pepper and salt. Stew very slowly, but do not let it cease to boil during this time. At the end of four hours strain the soup, and add the finer parts of the turtle and the green fat, which has been simmered for one hour in two quarts of water. Thicken with browned flour
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