Crab Gumbo
Prepare same as Chicken Gumbo, substituting one quart crab meat for chicken and using the crab liquor.
Mulligatawny Soup
- 6 cups chicken stock
¼ cup onion
2 tablespoons chopped cooked ham
1 tablespoon carrot
4 cloves
1 teaspoon curry powder
1 teaspoon chopped parsley
salt, pepper, cayenne
½ cup cooked chicken
2 cups tomato
½ cup green apple
1 tablespoon tomato catsup
¼ cup boiled rice
1 lemon sliced
Melt butter, add vegetables, and cook five minutes. Add remaining ingredients, except lemon, and cook one half hour. Serve garnished with lemon.
Green Turtle Soup
- 1 can green turtle
4 cups brown stock
4 cloves, 6 peppercorns
bit of bay leaf
blade of mace
cayenne
1 sliced lemon
sprig each of savory, marjoram, thyme and sage
3 tablespoons butter
¼ cup onion
3 tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups brown stock
¼ cup sherry
Separate the green fat from the rest of the turtle. Cut fat in cubes. Cook turtle and herbs in four cups of stock one half hour. Melt butter; add onion, flour, salt, cayenne and two cups stock; boil five minutes; add turtle mixture; cook five minutes; add fat cubes. Pour into tureen, and garnish with lemon; add sherry. Serve.