My great grand mother had ten kids, and she wasted nothing in food dept. Leftover pinto beans were made into pumpkin tasting pie, and cantalope pies were tatsy to. I still have the recipes somewhere, and even had one published in newspaper here back in 80's.
Never heard of that one, but when I was a child there was something called Mock Turtle Soup. Wasn't sure what it was made of, but as long as it wasn't real turtle I was ok with it.
Several places I have lived, turtle was considered a delicacy. The difficulty seemed to be cleaning the turtle and prepping it for use.
@Von Jones Check out this video by an old friend about the Spanish depression and garlic saving the day.
Funny I made chili on Wednesday and felt something was missing. Chili powder and garlic salt. Someone would say what's the point? I had a big stock pot of everything and forgot the most important ingredients, shame on me, lol.
I didn't realize it until I went to the store for milk and walked through the spices and hung my head down, lol.
Chin up girl, I have done similar things while attempting cooking hahaha! I left out my secret ingredient to my holiday soup, two years in a row. This year I already have the bottle of white pepper set out in plain sight. My fake nieces immediately pointed out something was wrong and it was just turkey soup and not Auntie Fayes Holiday Soup. I always take 4 gallons of it over to a long-time friend that hosts a holiday open house for family and friends. She brings me the leftover turkey and bones after Thanksgiving and I simmer the bones for several days to make a broth that is the liquid base for the soup.
Wow, that's a lot of soup, Faye. Sounds like the missing ingredient wasn't missed though. Must have delicious still.
I forget what I was looking for when I stumbled across a video about catching, cleaning and cooking turtle. It was not a pleasant thing. I know they can be destructive to the ecology of a pond. I've seen a few destroyed during my fishing days. And I've been around hunting. But the cleaning experience of a turtle is unlike anything I've ever seen.
My landlord in one small town was the master at cleaning turtles, and people would bring them in to him to have them cleaned and prepped, but I never watched it done.
"They say you can get seven different kinds of meat from butchering a turtle. Depending on what part of the turtle you’re chewing on, the taste may be reminiscent of pork, or chicken, or veal, or fish, or whatever … you get the picture. Perhaps this variability can partly explain why turtle has been such a popular menu item throughout the history of the United States. At least, it used to be. Not so long ago you could find Campbell’s turtle soup sitting alongside minestrone and tomato in grocery stores throughout the country. So what happened? How and why did an American staple virtually vanish"? (READ MORE) Alligator snapping turtles were the main ingredient in soups and stews. "Turtle soup in the United States did not fade away simply because our palates changed. Our taste for turtle soup exploded to unsustainable levels and caused the turtles to disappear first. They still haven’t come back".