Terrapin Dish

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons of flour
• a pint of hot water
• a quart of finely cut terrapin
• a quart of bread crumbs made fine
• salt
• pepper
• a trifle of nutmeg
• sweet milk enough to show through the top layer of crumbs
• a few bits of butter

Method

1. 1

   Melt and stir in the flour; then pour on hot water, stirring rapidly to make a smooth gravy.

2. 2

   Pound the terrapin eggs to a paste and add with salt, pepper, and nutmeg to taste; then strain.

3. 3

   In a pudding dish, layer terrapin, crumbs, and sauce, finishing with crumbs on top.

4. 4

   Add sweet milk to moisten and bake for 20 minutes in a hot oven.

5. 5

   Serve with slices of lemon.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household cook book (1902) by Smiley, James B[ethuel],, page 68. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

2 tablespoons of flour; then pour on a pint of hot water, stirring rapidly, to make a smooth gravy; pound the terrapin eggs to a paste and add with salt, pepper, and a trifle of nutmeg to taste; then strain. For a quart of finely cut terrapin, have a quart of bread crumbs made fine; put a layer of terrapin on the bottom of a pudding dish, then a layer of crumbs, then of sauce, and so fill the dish, having a layer of crumbs on the top. Add sweet milk enough 94 SHELL^FISH to show through the top layer of crumbs if it is not sufficiently moist; put on a few bits of butter

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