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Abigail Wellington Townsend cookbook, circa 1840
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To dress Tortoise When your turtle is cut up, cut of all your meat take the bones fins entrails & all except the meat put it to stew with a piece of neck beef it will make your soup rich salt it when you put it on season it when half done with black pepper cayenne mace nutmegs cloves thyme & parsly to your taste if you stew in all your meat it must not go on till your first has been on two hours put it first
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To dress Tortoise When your turtle is cut up, cut of all your meat take the bones fins entrails & all except the meat put it to stew with a piece of neck beef it will make your soup rich salt it when you put it on season it when half done with black pepper cayenne mace nutmegs cloves thyme & parsly to your taste if you stew in all your meat it must not go on till your first has been on two hours put it first
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