Old-Fashioned Mock Turtle

Name: Old-Fashioned Mock Turtle
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: heads of celery, 3; pounded mace, halfteaspoonful; flour and butter for thickening, of each 4 oz.; cayenne, third as much (more of each as needed); thin rind, 1 lemon; salt, 2 oz. (as much more to be added when the soup is made as will season it sufficiently); large bunch herbs; peppercorns, 1 dessertspoonful; Flesh of head and tongue, nearly or quite lbs.: 1¼ to 1½ hour.; Forcemeat-balls, 36 the brain cut and fried; egg-balls, 16 to 24.; sherry, half pint: 2 to 3 minutes.; whole calf’s head with skin on, boiled 1½ hour.; stock: neck of beef, browned in butter, 8 lbs.; lean of ham, ½ to ¾ lb.; onions, 4; large carrots, 3

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Modern Cookery for Private Families

By Eliza Acton

Published 1845

About

Ingredients

whole calf’s head with skin on, boiled 1½ hour.
stock: neck of beef, browned in butter, 8 lbs.
lean of ham

Europe
United Kingdom
Stew
Soup

Method

After having taken out the brain and washed and soaked the head well, pour to it nine quarts of cold water, bring it gently to boil, skim it very clean, boil it if large an hour and a half, lift it out, and put into the liquor eight