Terrapin or Gopher Soup

Ingredients

• One fresh water terrapin
• Two quarts of water
• One slice of bacon
• Two Dozen Cloves
• Three Dozen Allspice
• Salt
• Black and Red Pepper
• Half a Nutmeg
• One glass of wine

Directions

1. Clean terrapin.
2. Place terrapin, bacon, cloves, allspice, salt, black pepper, and red pepper in digester with water.
3. Boil mixture for three-four hours.
4. Thicken and brown.
5. Grate half a nutmeg and add to one glass of wine.
6. Before serving, add glass of wine to terrapin mixture.

Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Dylan Clark
Louisiana Anthology
December 12, 2019