Among The Carolina Housewife’s many intriguing soups is one Sarah Rutledge calls “Soup with (So Called) Green Frogs,” which is a broth poured over spinach leaves wrapped around a dumpling of butter, bread crumbs, peas, and egg—the so-called green frogs. Another is Seminole, which asks for one boiled squirrel and broth thickened with hickory nuts, sassafras leaves, or “the tender top of a pine tree.” A third on
