Recipe - Terrapin Soup

3 Terrapins; 5 to 7inches
One half cup Butter
1 tablespoon (heaping) flour
1 pt Milk
Salt and pepper
6 Hard boiled eggs
One half pt Thick cream
Sherry wine

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Recipe from "Call it Delmarvalous"

Boil terrapins and pick out meat; melt butter in a good size sauce pan.
Remove from fire, and blend in flour; stir in milk gradually, and season
with salt and pepper. Chop egg whites and add with terrapin meat to milk
mixture; stir in mashed yolks of eggs. Return to stove and simmer until
thickened. Last add cream, and sherry wine to your taste.

Posted to recipeludigest by LSHW shusky@erols.com on Feb 19, 1998