How To Cook Terrapin
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This section is from the book "The Blue Grass Cook Book", by Minnie C. Fox. Also available from Amazon: The Blue Grass Cook Book.
How To Cook Terrapin
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Dress carefully 3 small terrapins, and cook till well done, an hour or longer, or less, if tender.
Take the yolks of 3 hard-boiled eggs and mix with 1/4 pound of butter. Put in sauce-pan with the terrapin and a teacup of cream and dissolve all well. Then season with pepper and salt and 1/2 cup of sherry or Madeira wine. Garnish with thin slices of lemon.
How To Open Terrapin
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Place on back with feet to you. Remove the gall-bladder carefully from left-hand liver. The other liver may be cut up. Leave out nails and bones of head. Put the eggs in cold water after removing film around them.
How To Dress Terrapin
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Throw the terrapin in boiling water. Remove and boil in fresh water. Rub the terrapin with a towel to remove outside skin. Put back in water and boil.
It is cooked when the joints of the leg break easily.
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