Mock-Turtle Soup

Ingredients

• tin of mock-turtle soup
• a dessert-spoonful of mixed flavouring herbs
• a dessert-spoonful of brown thickening
• a tablespoonful of good old sherry — or, better still, madeira
• a good brimming teaspoonful of extract of meat
• a couple of yolks of hard-boiled eggs
• a small quantity of chopped parsley
• a little pepper and salt

Method

1. 1

   Warm the tin of mock-turtle soup in boiling water for 20 minutes.

2. 2

   Add stock and mixed herbs boiled for 20 minutes.

3. 3

   Dissolve brown thickening in the soup and let it boil.

4. 4

   Add sherry or madeira and extract of meat for richness.

5. 5

   Prepare egg-balls by mixing powdered yolks with parsley, pepper, salt, and a raw yolk, then roll into balls and cook in boiling water before adding to the soup.

6. 6

   Serve with cut lemon and cayenne pepper.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The housekeeper's guide to preserved meats, fruits, vegetables, &c (1880), page 149. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

mock-turtle soup sold in tins can be altered in flavour after the tin is opened. Cooks, therefore, who know their masters’ taste oan flavour the soup after the tin is opened. The tin of mock-turtle soup will bear the addition of a little stock. Should the flavour of herbs be. desired, a des- sert-spoonful of mixed flavouring herbs may be boiled for about twenty minutes in some stock, which can then be added to the soup. Then add a dessert-spoon- ful of brown thickening. Dissolve this in the soup and let the soup boil. When tinned soup has this addition made to it it will require a little more wine. A tablespoonful of good old sherry — or, better still, madeira — is the best for this purpose. Should the soup be required very rich and nourishing, a good brimming teaspoonful of extract of meat should be added. Another im- provement to mock-turtle soup is a few egg-balls. Take a couple of yolks of hard-boiled eggs — the egg having been boiled sufficiently long to make the yolks crumble to powder when opened ; add to these powdered yolks a small quantity of chopped parsley and a little pepper and salt

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