Turtle Forcemeat Balls

Ingredients

• 1/4 pound fine-minced turtle meat
• the yolks of 3 hard-boiled eggs
• 1 1/2 tablespoonful butter
• 2 whole eggs
• a little Cayenne pepper
• and mace
• 2 tablespoonfuls of powdered crackers
• and, if necessary, some salt

Method

1. 1

   Add fine-minced turtle meat to the yolks of 3 hard-boiled eggs, previously rubbed into a paste with butter.

2. 2

   Add 2 whole eggs, Cayenne pepper, mace, powdered crackers, and salt if necessary.

3. 3

   Mix all the ingredients well together, shape into balls, dip in egg, then in powdered crackers, fry in batter, and drop into the turtle soup or use them for turtle ragout.

As published

This recipe was extracted from European and American cuisine (1914) by Lemcke, Mrs. Gesine Knubel, page 60. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Turtle Forcemeat Balls.— Add to V« pound fine-minced tur- tle meat the yolks of 3 hard-boiled eggs, previously rubbed into a paste with ly^ tablespoonful butter; add 2 whole eggs, a little Cayenne pepper, and mace, 2 tablespoonfuls of powdered crackers, and, if necessary, some salt

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