Mock Terrapin

Take 1 cup of chicken or veal broth; place in a pan and simmer down until a dark golden brown, and the pan can almost be turned upside down without its running out. To this add 1 tablespoon of butter and 1 rounded tablespoon flour. Pour into this slowly, while stirring, the water from 1 can of mushrooms. When this sauce is thoroughly cooked, add left over sweetbreads, finely chopped, or chicken, or veal, yolks of a number of hard-boiled eggs, some red and some white pepper, salt and mushrooms. If one has a little cream, it may be added. Two or 3 kinds of the meats mentioned, may be used together ,if at hand.

Chicken Terrapin

Remove the skin, and cut into little square pieces, a cold boiled chicken. Boil down juice in which the chicken was boiled to 1/2 pint. Make a gravy of 1/4 lb butter melted in saucepan; rub in smoothly a tablespoon flour, then add a pint of cream and the chicken broth. Season with salt and cayenne pepper, and put in 3 hard-boiled eggs, chopped not too fine, and glass of sherry wine. Serve hot with a few olives and crisp crackers or sandwiches. This is enough for six.