Food Friday: Mock Turtle Soup
This community cookbook, My Mother's Cook Book, from the Ladies of St. Louis, compiled for the Women's Christian Home has a few recipes for Mock Turtle Soup (see page 17 for two versions).
For the squimish cook, I would recommend the mock soup versus the Turtle Soup found on page 19 that requires the decapitation and bloodletting of a live turtle. (That's something you won't find on Food Network.)
Is that a real thing? I thought it was just something made up for "Alice in Wonderland!" ;-)
ReplyDeleteSo your not making this for dinner tonight? Well it's interesting to look at cookbooks and see what was probably great cuisine at a certain time period but has now fallen out of favor. I know other countries eat turtles but my assumption is that most Americans view them as pets.
ReplyDeleteIf my daughter thought we were eating Tuck (the turtle from Wonder Pets), she would scream bloody murder. Believe me, I would never hear the end of it. Thankfully, she doesn't watch any cartoons about cute, talking chickens, and she doesn't know what hot dogs are made of.
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting to find out what people ate back in the day, but I'm kind of glad we don't eat most of those things any longer!
Gena--
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My husband is from Louisiana and remembers eating Turtle soup (In the 70's) from a turtle they had caught. He said it was huge! And he had to clean it which is why he said he will never eat turtle soup again!!
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