Terrapin, Creamed

Ingredients

• two table-spoonfuls of butter
• two table-spoonfuls of flour
• one teaspoonful of salt
• one pint of cream
• one salt - spoonful of white pepper
• one salt-spoonful of grated nutmeg
• speck of cayenne
• one pint of terrapin meat
• the well-beaten yolks of four eggs
• one table-spoonful of lemon-juice
• one gill of Madeira wine

Method

1. 1

   Make a white sauce with butter, flour, salt, cream, white pepper, nutmeg, and cayenne.

2. 2

   When smooth, add terrapin meat and heat until scalding hot.

3. 3

   Remove from heat and stir in beaten egg yolks.

4. 4

   Do not boil after adding eggs.

5. 5

   Pour into a tureen with lemon juice and Madeira wine.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 432. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Terrapin, Creamed. — Make a white sauce, using two table-spoonfuls of butter, two table-spoonfuls of flour, one teaspoonful of salt, one pint of cream, one salt - spoonful of white 384 Terrapin Salad THICKENINGS Things to Remember pepper, one salt-spoonful of grated nutmeg, speck of cayenne. When the sauce is smooth and creamy put in one pint of terrapin meat, and stir until .scalding hot, then draw saucepan to one side of the fire, where its contents will not boil, and stir in the well -beaten yolks of four eggs. Do not allow it to boil after adding eggs, but pour at once into a tureen containing one table-spoonful of lemon- juice and one gill of Madeira wine

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