Free Recipe Mock Snapper Soup
Recipe Type: S Recipes
Recipe Preparation: cook
Cooking Temperature:
Recipe Serves: 16
Ingredients for Mock Snapper Soup Recipe
3 lb Beef neck bones
1/4 lb Salt pork
1 c Chopped celery
1 c Chopped onion (not peeled)
1 c Chopped carrots
1/2 (3.5-lb) chicken; in one
-piece
1 tb Whole basil leaves
1 ts Whole marjoram leaves
1 tb Whole thyme leaves
3 Whole bay leaves
20 Whole black peppercorns
1 ts Cayenne pepper
1 Bunch whole parsley leaves
6 Cloves garlic; chopped,
-peel and all
1 cn (28-oz) tomatoes; pureed in
-blender or food processor
2 Sticks butter
1 c Flour
1/2 lb Halibut (cheeks or boneless
-filet)
1/2 lb Crabmeat
2 ts Salt; or to taste
1 Lemon; juice of
1/2 tb Tabasco; or to taste
3 tb Worcestershire; to taste
1/4 ts Ground cloves; optional
1 c Dry cocktail sherry
8 Hard-boiled eggs; grated
Mock Snapper Soup Preparation
Most of us have trouble getting turtle. Besides, the poor terrapin, which was originally used in this recipe, is now on the endangered species list. So I have given you a mock version that is really very good. Terrapin was a very popular and inexpensive dish in the old days among Philadelphians, so popular that they ate up an otherwise very frugal source of food. A very good version of this soup, using a different variety of turtle, is still available at Bookbinder”s restaurant in Philadelphia. I have developed a soup that has no turtle in it at all, but I think you will like the flavor. It takes a little doing, but this recipe is worth it. Place the beef neck bones in a roasting pan and roast, uncovered, for 45 minutes at 400