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Mock Turtle Soup

Take a calf's head, pluck, and feet with skin on; put into a pot with about a pail of water; add two onions and skim well when boiling. Boil until the meat falls from the bone; then strain and turn the soup back in the pot; add a full tablespoonful of cloves, salt pepper, mace, nutmeg, and a little red pepper. Cut up half the meat and add to the soup, just heating it through. Then set it away; next day add more spice and a little butter, with flour rubbed in; one pint of port wine, lemon slices, eggs, and force meat balls. -Miss Chaffee. - FRENCH OX TAIL OR MOCK TURTLE SOUP.

Fry some ham, onions, butter, and ox tail together. Add to this as much hot water as you will need, and boil for one hour. Then add tomatoes, spices tied up in a bag, skin of one lemon. Boil well; mash a hardboiled egg and place in the bottom of your tureen before pouring in the soup. Just before serving add one wine glass of sherry and one lemon, sliced.-Mrs. John Durst.