Mook Turtle Soup

Ingredients

• One soup-bone
• one quart of turtle beans
• one large spoonful of powdered cloves
• salt
• pepper
• nearly six quarts of water

Method

1. 1

   Soak the beans overnight, put them on with the soup-bone in nearly six quarts of water and cook for five or six hours.

2. 2

   When half done, add the cloves, salt, and pepper.

3. 3

   When done, strain through a colander, pressing the pulp of the beans through to make the soup the desired thickness.

4. 4

   Serve with a few slices of hard-boiled egg and lemon sliced very thin.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new home cook book (1896), page 28. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MOOK TURTLE SOUP. Mrs. C. H. Wheeler. One soup-bone, one quart of turtle beans, one large spoonful of powdered cloves, salt and pepper. Soak thie beans over night, put them on with the soup-bone in nearly six quarts of water

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