Turtle Soup Recipe

• 3 pints clear white stock
• 1 can green turtle
• 1 onion
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 tablespoon flour
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon paprika
• 1 lemon
• ½ glassful sherry
• 6 cloves
• 6 peppercorns
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 blade mace
• 1 teaspoon mixed sweet herbs

1. Simmer the turtle meat for an hour in the stock, with the sweet herbs and spices tied loosely in a piece of cheesecloth.
2. Slice the onion and cook it in the butter but do not let it brown much; add the flour to the onion and butter and stir until smooth.
3. Add this to the hot soup with the salt and paprika; let it simmer until thoroughly blended, then add the sherry and meat.
4. Serve with a very thin slice of lemon in each plate.
5. Egg balls or hard-boiled egg-yolks cut in quarters may be served with the soup.

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