Terrapin Stew

Ingredients

• your terrapin
• a quarter of a pound of butter
• a taste of red pepper
• the squeeze of a half lemon
• a dash of sherry
• as much water as will stew

Method

1. 1

   Boil the terrapin for 2 hours until the skin on the legs peels off.

2. 2

   Remove the meat from the shell and gall-sac.

3. 3

   Stew the meat with butter, red pepper, lemon juice, and a dash of sherry.

4. 4

   Add enough water to stew and let it cook.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 362. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

your terrapin for two hours, until the skin on the legs peels off; the pick the terrapin out of the shell and remove its gall-sac; then stew, by adding a quarter of a pound of butter, a taste of red pepper and the squeeze of a half lemon; put as much water as will stew, pour in a dash of sherry, and leave the rest to nature."*"* Thus "Tommy" Boylan, of Guy's, in Baltimore, to the artist and the writer, and there is no better autho- rity on terrapin from Savannah to the Patapsco River. Turtle may be fit for aldermeiii but terrapin is food for princes, and a terrapin-stew

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