Turtle Soup

Ingredients

• 3 lbs. turtle meat
• 4 Tb. fat
• 2 onions, small, minced
• 2 sprigs parsley
• 4 Tb. flour
• 1 C. canned tomatoes
• 1 Tb. salt
• 1/4 clove of garlic
• 4 qts. stock and water
• 2 bay leaves

Method

1. 1

   Fry turtle meat in fat, add onions and parsley, then flour.

2. 2

   Add tomatoes, salt, garlic, and stock.

3. 3

   Cook for 3 hours and strain.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Notes and recipes, freshman domestic science, H. Sophie Newcomb memorial college (1915) by Harriet Amelia Boyer, page 10. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Turtle Soup. (Recipe for 12 persons.) 3 lbs. turtle meat — cut small and parboiled 10 minutes, water used as stock. Fry it in 4 Tb. fat (ham fat or other drippings best) . 2 onions, small, minced 2 sprigs parsley 4 Tb. flour browned 6 cloves in fat 2 blades mace 1 C. canned tomatoes 1 lump sugar 1 Tb. salt and i/4 clove of 2 Tb. lemon juice garlic mashed fine 4 qts. stock and water 2 bay leaves

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