Name: Mock Turtle Soup
Ingredients: brains from a calf's head; 8 quarts cold water; shin of veal

Mock Turtle Soup

Ingredients

brains from a calf's head
8 quarts cold water
shin of veal

Directions

Prepare

Soak the brains in a bowl of cold water.
Wash the calf's head and let it stand in cold water for 2 hours.

Cook

Place the head and shin of veal in a soup kettle with 8 quarts of cold water.
Bring to a boil and simmer until cooked through.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Brains from a calf's head: Adds richness and a soft, creamy body to the soup.
Shin of veal: Releases gelatin and flavor into the broth as it simmers, giving body.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.