Green Turtle Soup Recipe
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Ingredients for Green Turtle Soup Recipe
- 1 10-lb. turtle, already prepared for cooking
- 4 qts. cold water
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1/3 cup butter
- 4 tablespoons flour
- 1 cup Madeira wine
- 10 whole cloves
- ½ teaspoon peppercorns
- 2 bay leaves,½ bunch herbs
- 2 onions
- 2 tablespoons parsley, minced
- 8 hard boiled eggs
Instructions
- Place the upper and lower shell in a large kettle with 4 quarts of cold water, simmer gently until bones fall apart.
- Put into soup kettle the head, fins, liver, heart, and all the meat; add all the seasonings, cover with liquor in which the shells were boiled and simmer until meat is thoroughly done; strain the mixture through a fine sieve.
- Melt the butter and brown the finely chopped onion in it. Add the flour and cook together until brown.
- Add a pint of the soup, a little at a time, and cook until smooth. Combine with rest of the soup.
- Add the cut meat, the hard boiled eggs chopped fine, and lastly the wine.
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