Mock Turtle Soup

Ingredients

• Take a cat's head
• about a pail of water
• two onions
• a full tablespoonful of cloves
• spices
• one pint of port wine
• a little butter
• with flour rubbed in
• lemon slices
• force meat balls

Method

1. 1

   Boil cat's head with water and onions until meat falls off the bone.

2. 2

   Strain, return to pot, add spices and meat, heat through, then add more spice, butter, flour, wine, lemon, and force meat balls.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Twentieth century home cook book (1905) by Francis Carruthers, page 43. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MOCK TURTLE SOUP. Take a cait's head, pluck, and feet with skin on ; put into a pot with about a pail of water; add two onions and skim well when boiling. Boil until the meat falls from the bone ; then strain and turn the soup back in the pot; add a full tablespoonful of cloves, salt pepper, mace, nutmeg, and a little red pepper. Cut up half the meat and add to the soup, just heating it through. Then set it away; next day add more spice and a little butter, with flour rubbed in ; one pint of port wine, lemon slices, eggs, and force meat balls. — J/iss Chaffee. FRENCH OX TAIL OR MOCK TURTLE SOUP. Yry some ham, onions, butter, and ox tail together. Add to this as much hot water as you will need, and boil for one hour. Then add toma- toes, spices

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