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Mock Terrapin Soup

For the mock terrapin soup, take one pound and a quarter of calf's liver and put into salt boiling water for half an hour; add small herbs, add three peppercorns, three cloves, two slices of onion, carrot, when the vegetables are done, take them out and mash by putting them through a sieve; make a Spanish sauce of salt pork or bacon, fried enough to get the fat out of it, put into the fat a slice of onion, a little celery, one-half dozen pepper corns (or little sweet pepper), one-half cupful of tomato, and cook brown; take one teaspoonful salad-oil, one yolk of hard boiled egg, dust of cayenne pepper; roll to paste, and make into small, round balls; put these into Spanish sauce; then put the sauce into the soup; when they come to the top, skim them out; put in the tureen one glass of wine and slice of lemon, and pour in the soup; then cut the calf's liver into small bits and add it.