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An Excellent and Very Cheap Mock Turtle

A soup made from cow heels, gravy beef, and herbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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An Excellent and Very Cheap Mock Turtle

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bake the cow-heels with the gravy beef and herbs.

  2. Simmer until the meat is tender and flavors meld.

  3. 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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What each ingredient does

Cow-heels
Give body and gelatin, so the soup becomes rich and thick as it cooks.
Gravy beef
Supplies the meaty flavor and tender meat that the soup is built around.

“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.

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