Terrapin Salad

Ingredients

• the yolks of six hard-boiled eggs
• Vz lb. of butter
• one teaspoonful of flour
• one teaspoonful of salt
• half-teaspoonful of white pepper
• one pinch of cayenne
• the meat of three boiled terrapins
• a small glassful of sherry

Method

1. 1

   Rub the yolks of hard-boiled eggs smooth with butter until light and creamy.

2. 2

   Add flour, salt, white pepper, cayenne, and minced terrapin meat.

3. 3

   Cook for five minutes, remove from fire, and add sherry.

4. 4

   Serve on lettuce leaves, garnished with watercress and slices of boiled eggs.

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 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. T errapin Salad. — Rub the yolks of six hard - boiled eggs smooth in Vz lb. of butter. When light and creamy add one teaspoonful of flour, one teaspoonful of salt, half-teaspoon- ful of white pepper, one pinch of cayenne, and the meat of three boiled terrapins, minced fine ; cook five min- utes, remove from fire, add a small glassful of sherry

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