Name: Stewed Water Turtles, or Terrapins
Ingredients: large water turtles (preferably females); coarse sea salt

Stewed Water Turtles, or Terrapins

Ingredients

large water turtles (preferably females)
coarse sea salt

Directions

Select the largest, thickest, and fattest turtles, preferably females, and ensure they are alive when purchased.
Wash the turtles and place them alive into boiling water.
Add a little coarse sea salt and boil until thoroughly cooked.

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.