The terrapins lay about thirty eggs in the course of several weeks, and these are round, with a calcareous shell.
Send the terrapins to the table hot in a covered dish, and the sauce separately in a sauce tureen, to be used by those who like it, and omitted by those who prefer the genuine flavor of the terrapins when simply stewed with butter.
This is now the usual mode of dressing terrapins in Maryland, Virginia, and many other parts of the South, and will be found superior to any other.
No dish of terrapins can be good unless the terrapinsthemselves are of the best quality.
This is now the usual mode of dressing terrapins in Maryland and Virginia, and will be found superior to any other.
If the terrapins are large, use one pound of the best butter; if small, less, and a pint of good sherry wine.
After washing theterrapins in warm water, put them in the kettle alive, and cover with cold water, keeping the vessel covered tight.
Prepare your terrapins as the foregoing, add to them half a pint of brandy, touch it with a lighted match, let it burn, and serve.
Pick and clean, as the foregoing, two terrapinsweighing about six to seven pounds.
Since then terrapins have become so rare that no stylish dinner ever takes place without this dish.
Leaving the terrapins to carry back with us on our return, we pushed on in the hope of falling in with some more.
We saw a vast number of birds, which were very tame, but not a single four-legged creature besides the terrapins and lizards.
To every two terrapins allow a quarter of a pound of butter divided into pieces and rolled in flour, two glasses of Madeira, and the yolks of two eggs.
Then take them out, pull off the outer skin and the toe-nails, wash the terrapins in warm water and boil them again, allowing a tea-spoonful of salt to each terrapin.
Terrapins also, and other shell fish, should have the salt and water changed every twelve hours, and be fed with corn meal.
Small poor terrapins are not worth the cost of the seasoning.
In buyingterrapins select the largest and thickest.
Four fine large terrapinsgenerally make one dish; and the above is the usual quantity of seasoning for them.
Having washed them in warm water, put the terrapins into a clean pot with fresh water, and a table-spoonful of salt, and boil them again till they are thoroughly done, and the paws are perfectly soft.
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