Turtle Soup
Ingredients:
1 ½ lbs Turtle meat
1 Tbsp flour
1 Tbsp lard
1 onion, chopped very fine
1 can tomato sauce
stock (water in which turtle
was boiled)
2 eggs, hard cooked
3 Tbsp olive oil
1 tsp ground cloves
1 tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp nutmeg
1-cup wine
½ sliced lemon
3 cloves garlic, chopped
very fine
Directions:
Clean and cut turtle in small pieces. Boil in salt water until very tender. Cut in smaller pieces when removing bones. Make a roux (brown flour in lard); chop onion very fine and brown in roux. Mash 2 hard cooked egg yolks with the olive oil. Add cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Blend these ingredients well and pour into the tomato gravy. Then pour tomato gravy into pot containing meat and stock. Boil about 40 minutes. Add wine, lemon and garlic; simmer 20 minutes longer. Add cooked whites of egg sliced thin. Season to taste.