Turtle Soup

Ingredients

• Scald terrapin
• nice piece of soup meat
• two onions
• a handful of parsley
• little thyme
• a half teaspoon of ground allspice
• four round spices
• a little ground mace
• a little pepper
• a little salt
• half a lemon
• a little wine

Method

1. 1

   Scald terrapin, remove gall, scrape skin, cut, and wash.

2. 2

   Boil with soup meat for 3 hours.

3. 3

   Strain meat, boil terrapin until half an hour before dinner.

4. 4

   Season with onions, parsley, thyme, allspice, round spices, mace, pepper, and salt.

5. 5

   Add lemon and wine just before serving.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Natchez recipes (1900), page 27. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

TURTLE SOUP Scald terrapin as you would a chicken, after having taken out the gall. Scrape the outer skin off. Cut up and wash it. Have a nice piece of soup meat. Boil it until about 3 hours before dinner. Boil with the meat the shell of the terrapin; then strain all the meat out of the pot and throw in the terra- pin and let it boil steadily over a slow fire until half an hour before dinner. Then season with two onions, a handful of parsley and thyme. Chop up very fine and add a half teaspoon of ground allspice, four round spices, a little ground mace and pepper and salt. Just before dishing up, cut in the soup half a lemon and throw in a little wine

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