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Green Turtle Soup

Green Turtle Soup — a soup recipe, 16 ingredients.

Soup

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Ingredients

Units: US Metric
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  • 6 tablespoons finely-chopped turtle meat
  • 2 hard-boiled egg yolks
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • Oyster juice/liquor (optional)
  • Ground cayenne pepper
  • Ground mace
  • ½ teaspoon sugar
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 2 eggs
  • Cracker crumbs
  • 1 whole turtle, cleaned
  • 2 onions
  • 1 bunch of sweet herbs
  • Brown flour
  • 1 lemon, juiced
  • 1 glass of Madeira wine
Make it lactose-friendly
  • 1 tablespoon butter → plant butter, ghee (mostly lactose-free), or olive oil

Swaps are suggestions, not medical advice. Check labels if lactose is a serious issue for you.

Steps

  1. Rub the minced turtle, yolks, butter, oyster liquor, cayenne, mace, sugar, and salt together to make a paste.
  2. Mix in one of the eggs.
  3. Shape the mixture into small balls. Dip in egg, then cracker crumbs.
  4. Pan-fry in butter.
  5. After removing the entrails, cut up the coarser parts of the turtle meat and bones. Separate out the finer meat.
  6. Place the coarse turtle in a pot with the onions, herbs, pepper, and salt. Cover with 4 quarts (4 liters) water, and simmer for 4 hours. Strain the broth, and discard the solids.
  7. Simmer the finer turtle meat and the green fat for 1 hour in 2 quarts of water.
  8. If there are eggs in the turtle, simmer them for 4 hours in water.
  9. Reheat the broth in a pot, and add the fine turtle meat. Thicken with brown flour, and simmer gently for 1 hour.
  10. Add the simmered eggs and/or forcemeat, lemon juice, and wine.
  11. Serve hot.

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Source

Wikibooks Cookbook — adapted under CC BY-SA 3.0