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TURTLE SOUP FROM BEANS
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TURTLE SOUP FROM BEANS

6 ingredients 2 steps gutenberg
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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

300
Calories
14g
Protein
17g
Fat
22g
Carbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 5 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Black Bean 1/2 cup canned (120g) drained 114
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Black Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Summer Savory not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • one quart of black beans
  • a teaspoonful of summer savory
  • a tablespoonful of cold butter
  • four hard-boiled yolks of eggs quartered
  • salt
  • pepper

Directions

1

Soak over night one quart of black beans; next day boil them in the proper quantity of water, say a gallon, then dip the beans out of the pot and strain them through a colander. Then return the flour of the beans, thus pressed, into the pot in which they were boiled. Tie up in a thin cloth some thyme, a teaspoonful of summer savory and parsley, and let it boil in the mixture. Add a tablespoonful of cold butter, salt and pepper. Have ready four hard-boiled yolks of eggs quartered, and a few force meat balls; add this to the soup with a sliced lemon, and half a glass of wine just before serving the soup.

2

This approaches so near in flavor to the real turtle soup that few are able to distinguish the difference.

By F. L. Gillette and Hugo Ziemann · Recipe sourced from gutenberg

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