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Mock Turtle Soup

From Cassell's dictionary of cookery, 1892

Serves 10

This recipe emphasizes the importance of tasting before and after adding wine.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

  • three quarts of good clear mock turtle soup
  • a tumblerful of madeira

Method

  1. Prepare good clear mock turtle soup.

  2. Taste it before adding the madeira.

  3. After adding the madeira, taste again to evaluate the flavor difference.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 42. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

mock turtle soup made ; taste it before the wine is put to it — suppose the qixantity to be three quarts. Add a tumblerful of madeira

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