How to Make Perfect Mom's 70s Mock Turtle Soup

Mom's 70s Mock Turtle Soup. Simmer over medium heat, breaking up the ground beef, until there is no more pink. Add the onions, ketchup, worchestershire, vinegar, salt, pepper, and lemon. I would've posted my Mock Turtle Soup recipe long ago, but the measurements in mom's recipe (and in the other old-timey recipes I've found online) are based on quantities that don't really exist anymore. "Small bottles" of unknown volumes, etc.

I have fond memories of coming home from school and smelling this soup wafting through the house when I opened the front door. New Recipes Soup Recipes Vegetarian Recipes Favorite Recipes. Mom always used to say, "Turtle Soup, well, it's really mock-turtle soup." My grandmother used veal and then as veal turned into an ethical issue, Mom used some type of beef bones with meat. You can cook Mom's 70s Mock Turtle Soup using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Mom's 70s Mock Turtle Soup

1. It's of Ingredients.
2. You need of gingersnap cookies (preferably nabisco).
3. It's of water.
4. Prepare of 90/10 ground beef.
5. It's of water.
6. It's of onion, diced.
7. You need of 14-ounce bottle ketchup.
8. You need of worcestershire sauce (preferably Lea & Perrin's).
9. Prepare of apple cider vinegar.
10. You need of sea salt.
11. Prepare of ground black pepper.
12. It's of lemon, thinly sliced.
13. It's of hard boiled eggs, crumbled.
14. You need of additional water, worcestershire, & and lemon juice if needed.
15. You need of shot of sherry and oyster crackers on the side.

The Turtle Soup tradition came to the US with one of mother's German great-grandparents, Jacob Kirsch and Barbara Drechsel, from Germany. Abraham Lincoln had mock turtle soup at his first inauguration dinner and real turtle soup on his second. As turtles became scarcer and efforts to preserve them became more popular, mock turtle soup was. Whats people lookup in this blog: Share.

Mom's 70s Mock Turtle Soup instructions

1. Soak the gingersnaps in 2 cups of water and set aside..
2. In a large soup pot, add the 4 cups of water and the ground beef. Simmer over medium heat, breaking up the ground beef, until there is no more pink..
3. Add the onions, ketchup, worchestershire, vinegar, salt, pepper, and lemon. Let simmer in a covered pot for 1 hour..
4. Stir in the gingersnap slurry and continue cooking for another 15 minutes..
5. If the soup is a little to thick, add some additional water. Be sure to add additional Worcestershire and lemon juice to taste..
6. Serve garnished with hard boiled egg and serve with a shot of sherry and oyster crackers on the side..

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