Imitation Turtle.
The cold calf’s head, with the tongue.
1 cup of good gravy. If you have nothing else, borrow a cupful from your soup-jelly.
A dozen force-meat balls, made of the ears chopped fine, mixed with bread-crumbs, bound with beaten egg and rolled in flour.
1 teaspoonful minced parsley and thyme.
A little minced onion.
Browned flour.
4 hard-boiled eggs.
Pepper and salt.
Slice the meat from the head neatly. Heat the gravy with seasoning, herbs, and onion, and boil ten minutes. Strain; put the meat into the saucepan; pour the gravy over it, and set all in boiling water fifteen minutes. Put over the fire with the sliced eggs and force-meat balls. Let them begin to boil, and take off. Lay the meat evenly upon a dish, and the eggs upon it, the force-meat balls around all, and pour half the gravy over it, sending up the rest in a boat.