Turtle Soup
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the turtle by cleaning and cutting it into pieces.
In a large pot, add the turtle pieces and cover with water.
Add vegetables and herbs to the pot, and season to taste.
Simmer the soup for several hours until the turtle is tender.
Strain the soup and serve hot.
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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