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TURTLE SOUP, MOCK (easy way of making a small quantity)

Take some stock made from bones or the liquor in which meat has been boiled. Boil it with fresh vegetables, herbs, and spices till it is pleasantly flavoured, and strain carefully. Procure a tin of mock turtle soup. Boil this up with a little more than an equal quantity of the flavoured stock. When it is quite hot throw a claret-glassful of Madeira or good sherry into it, and serve very hot with one or two cut lemons on a dish. The mixture of the stock made from fresh vegetables with the preserved soup will correct the slight taste of the tin, which is the only objection which can be urged against it, and when a small quantity only of soup is required it will save time, trouble, and expense to make it in this way, rather than to prepare it at home. When there is no stock in the house, the vegetables and seasoning may be boiled in water, but, of course, the soup will not be so good as if stock were used. Time, one hour to flavour the stock. Probable cost, a tin of mock turtle, 1s. Sufficient for five or six persons.