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Old-fashioned Mock Turtle

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the brain from the calf's head and wash it thoroughly.

  2. Soak the head well, then pour in 9 quarts of cold water.

  3. Bring the water to a gentle boil and skim it clean.

  4. If the head is large, boil it for 1.5 hours.

  5. Remove the head from the pot and add 8 pounds of neck of beef to the broth.

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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