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Mock Turtle

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the brains from the calf's head and wash it several times in cold water.

  2. Soak the head in spring water for about 1 hour.

  3. Place the head in a stew pan and cover it with water.

  4. Prepare the broth and finish the soup the day before serving.

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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