Terrapin Soup

Ingredients

• 1 can terrapin
• 4 cups white stock
• 4 tablespoons butter
• 2 egg yolks hard cooked
• salt, cayenne
• blade of mace
• 1 cup cream
• 2 tablespoons flour
• ^ cup sherry

Method

1. 1

   Cook terrapin, stock and mace twenty minutes.

2. 2

   Melt butter, add flour, cream and egg yolks; combine mixtures, add sherry, and garnish with rice balls.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Lowney's cook book (1907) by Maria Willett Howard, page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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