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Mock Turtle Soup

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Mock Turtle Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Plunge the calf's head into boiling water for 1 minute.

  2. Remove the head and rub it all over with a coarse towel to remove hair.

  3. Cut the flesh starting from the center of the head down to the nostrils.

  4. Use a sharp knife to bone the head from the top to the base on both sides.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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