Turtle Soup

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Status
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Not a recipe
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Ingredients (9)
Seasoning for callipash
For thickening gravy
For serving
For boiling with guts
Instructions (17)
  1. Season the callipash pretty high with cayenne pepper, salt, and a little nutmeg.
  2. Put the seasoned callipash into the callipash.
  3. Sew or secure up the end of the callipash to keep in the gravy.
  4. Boil up the gravy.
  5. Add more wine to the gravy if required.
  6. Thicken the gravy a little with butter and flour.
  7. Put some of the thickened gravy to the turtle.
  8. Set the callipash in the oven with a well-buttered paper over it to keep it from burning.
  9. When the callipash is about half baked, squeeze in the juice of one or two lemons and stir it up.
  10. Bake the callipash for two hours.
  11. Bake the callipee for two hours minus half an hour (1.5 hours).
  12. Cut the guts in pieces two or three inches long.
  13. Cut the tripe in pieces smaller than two or three inches long.
  14. Put the cut guts and tripe into a mug of clear water.
  15. Set the mug with guts and tripe in the oven with the callipash.
  16. When the guts and tripe are cooked and drained from the water, mix them with the other parts.
  17. Serve the turtle soup very hot.
Original Text
season it pretty high with Chyan, salt, and a little nutmeg, and put it into the callipash, take care that it be sewed or secured up at the end, to keep in the gravy, then boil up the gravy, and add more wine if required, and thicken it a little with butter and flour, put some of it to the turtle, and set it in the oven, with a well buttered paper over it, to keep it from burning, and when it is about half baked squeeze in the juice of one or two lemons, and stir it up. Cal- lipash or back will take half an hour more bake- ing than the callipee, which two hours will do; the guts must be cut in pieces two or three inches long, the tripe in less, and put into a mug of clear water, and set in the oven with the cal- lipash, and when it is enough, and drained from the water, it is to be mixed with the other parts and set up very hot.
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