Mock Turtle Soup

Ingredients

• calves’-head boiled in stock
• two or three beads of garlic

Method

1. 1

   Boil the calves'-head in stock.

2. 2

   Cut the meat into small squares, remove bones, and add garlic for flavor.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The housekeeper's guide to preserved meats, fruits, vegetables, &c (1880), page 76. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Mock-turtle soup is simply calves’-head boiled in stock of this description. The meat must be cut up into small squares * about an inch and a half in size, and, of course, the bones removed. One very excellent soup, that may be called mock mock -turtle, can be made by substituting pig’s-head for calves’-head. Of course, hi both cases the head must be very care- fully washed and the tongue and brains removed before it is boiled. The latter can be made into a very nice separate 49 HOUSEKEEPER'S GUIDE. dish. Tn making soup from pig’s-head the cook will have considerable diffi- culty in getting rid of the grease. The only way to get rid of the grease from sou]) of this description is to let the soup simmer gently by the fire and skim it, occasionally throwing in a little cold water, which will assist in throwing up the grease. In making mock turtle from pig’s-head I think two or three beads of garlic

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