Ingredients
- One turtle
- A glass of Madeira wine
- Two onions
- A bunch of sweet herbs (basil, any mint, stevia)
- Juice of one lemon
- Five quarts of water
- Five hard-boiled eggs
- One raw egg
- Two cups of beef broth
- One stick of butter
- A little oyster liquor
- One teaspoon cayenne
- One teaspoon mace
- Half a teaspoon of white sugar
- A pinch of salt
- A pack of crackers
- One cup of browned flour
Directions
Soup
- Chop up all turtle meat with the entrails and bones, set aside the fat.
- Set aside roughly six tablespoonfuls of meat for the forcemeat balls, if there are no eggs in the turtle.
- In a pot, place the meat, entrails, bones etc, and add the herbs, onions, pepper, salt, and four quarts of water.
- If there are eggs in the turtle, boil in a separate vessel for four hours
- Stew for five hours, never ceasing the boiling during that time.
- After stewing, strain and then thicken with browned flour and simmer gently for another hour.
- While simmering the stew, in another pan simmer the green fat in two quarts of water for one hour.
- Before taking up the stew, add in the eggs or forcemeat balls. Along with that, add the lemon juice and wine once they have been beaten together (in a separate container, whisk them together).
- Cut the fat into strips an inch long and add it to the stew.
Forcemeat Balls
- Rub the finely chopped turtle meat and two hard boiled egg yolks into a smooth paste with one tablespoonful of butter and a little oyster liquor.
- Season with cayenne, mace, white sugar, and salt.
- Bind with one raw, beaten egg.
- Bread with powdered crackers.
- Fry in butter.
- Add to soup when it is almost done.