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Calves Head Soup, or Mock Turtle

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Calves Head Soup, or Mock Turtle

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Scald the hair off the calf's head and split it in two.

  2. Boil the head in plenty of water until very tender.

  3. Remove the meat from the bones and cut it into squares.

  4. Prepare a thickening similar to that used for turtle soup and mix it with the strong espagnole sauce.

  5. Boil the mixture and add the herbs, forcemeat, and wine.

  6. Finish the soup according to the turtle recipe.

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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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Wine + saucetop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,936 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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