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

1. Place the upper and lower shell in a large kettle with 4 quarts of cold water, simmer gently until bones fall apart.
2. 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.
3. Melt the butter and brown the finely chopped onion in it. Add the flour and cook together until brown.
4. Add a pint of the soup, a little at a time, and cook until smooth. Combine with rest of the soup.
5. Add the cut meat, the hard boiled eggs chopped fine, and lastly the wine.

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