Mock Turtle Soup

Ingredients

• half a pound of butter
• the same quantity of flour
• two quarts of good stock
• two tumblersful of Madeira
• thyme
• savory
• pounded eschalots
• laurel leaves
• your calf's head

Method

1. 1

   Make thickening with butter, flour, stock, and white veal stock.

2. 2

   Add Madeira and seasonings.

3. 3

   Boil calf's head in thickening, press, cut into dice, and warm in the cooking liquor.

4. 4

   Add to soup, stir in cayenne, and serve with chicken quenelles.

As published

This recipe was extracted from 366 menus and 1200 recipes of the Baron Brisse in French and English (1884) by Brisse, L©♭on baron, page 102. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Mock turtle soup. Coquilles aux huîtres. Scalloped oysters. Côte de bœuf braisée garnie de Braised ribs of beef and stufied tomates farcies. tomatoes. Cailles rôties. Roast quail. Chicorée au jus. Stewed chicory. Pommes au riz. Stewed apples with rice. Mock turtle soup. Make some white thickening with half a pound of butter, the same quantity of flour, two quarts of good stock, and a little reduced white veal stock ; as soon as it boils, take off the fire, and leave to simmer by the side ; add two tumblersful of Madeira, and season with thyme, savory, pounded eschalots, and laurel leaves ; when sufficiently done, skim off all grease, and pass through a tammy. Boil your calfs head

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