Mock Turtle Soup

Ingredients

• Take a calf’s head
• pour on cold water sufficient to cover
• the peel of half a lemon
• the whisked whites and crushed shells of two eggs
• a glass of good sherry
• salt to taste
• a little sweet herb
• some thin slices of the soup-meat and tongue

Method

1. 1

   Remove the skin from the calf's head by soaking it in cold water.

2. 2

   Place the head in a saucepan, cover with cold water, and boil.

3. 3

   Remove the scum and let it simmer for seven hours.

4. 4

   Strain and cool, removing the grease.

5. 5

   Add sweet herb, celery, lemon peel, egg whites, and shells.

6. 6

   Boil and strain again.

7. 7

   Before serving, add browning, salt, and sherry, and pour over slices of meat in a tureen.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Anglo-Indian cookery at home (1895) by Henrietta A. Hervey, page 1. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Mock Turtle Soup. — Take a calf’s head, and remove the skin hy soakiug it for a couple of hours in cold water. When thoroughly cleansed, put the head into a large saucepan, pour on cold water sufficient to cover, and place on a moderate fire till it boils. Now take off the lid, and remove the scum. Let the soup simmer gently for seven hours, or until the bone and meat separate, when strain off through a clean toAvel, and set aside till quite cold. The grease will now have come to the surface, and must be carefully removed. Replace the soup on a slow fire for five minutes, again set aside to cool, add a little sweet herb, a shred of celery, the peel of half a lemon, the whisked whites and crushed shells of two eggs. Pour the mixture from one saucepan to another, which greatly helps the process of clearing, replace on fire, allowing the whole to boil ; then let it settle for a few minutes, after which strain through another clean towel. Before serving, add sufficient “broAvning,” salt to taste, and, at the last moment, a glass of good sherrv. Have ready in the tureen some thin slices of the soup- meat and tongue

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