Turtle Steak

Ingredients

• two spoonfuls of butter
• a tablespoonful of mushroom ketchup
• two tablespoonfuls of currant jelly
• a gill of port
• a dash of cayenne
• some salt
• the juice of half a lime

Method

1. 1

   Melt butter in a chafing dish, stir in mushroom ketchup, currant jelly, port, cayenne, and salt.

2. 2

   Simmer the turtle steak until tender, then stir in lime juice before serving.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A bachelors cupboard (1906) by A. Lyman Phillips, page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

turtle steak will amply repay the loser and make the smile of the winner ex- pand like Sunny Jim's. After melting two spoonfuls of butter in his blazer, the host, who meanwhile has the champagne cooling and the plates heating, will stir into the chafing dish a tablespoonful of mushroom ketchup, two tablespoonfuls of currant jelly, a gill of port, a dash of cayenne — why do they alw^ays say ''dash"? — and some salt. In this simmer the steak until tender, and, as a crowning touch, stir in the juice of half a lime

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