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mock turtle
[mock a.]
1. A dish consisting of calf's head dressed with sauces and condiments so as to resemble turtle.
1763H. Glasse Cookery (1767) 340 To dress a mock turtle. Take a calf's head [etc.]. 1783J. Farley Lond. Art of Cookery (1789) i. iii. 32. 1826 Mrs. Dods Cook & Housew. Man. 225 Mock Turtle, or Calf's Head.
2. (In full, mock turtle soup.) A soup made (usually of calf's head) in imitation of turtle soup.
1783J. Farley Lond. Art of Cookery (1789) i. xiii. 158 Mock-Turtle Soup. 1789Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France II. 196 The cold mock turtle soups..which London pastry-cooks keep in their shops. 1826Mrs. Dods Cook & Housew. Man. 83 Mock Turtle Soup. Procure the head of a middle-sized, well-fed cow calf [etc.]. 1833Marryat P. Simple xxvii, As the midshipmen prophesied, there was plenty of pork—mock-turtle soup, made out of a pig's head [etc.]. 1855Delamer Kitch. Gard. (1861) 122 Cooks say that it [i.e. Sweet basil]..is a grand secret in the composition of good mock-turtle soup.
fig.1890W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 553 Anglo-Catholics started vestments, and a whole lot of ‘mock turtle’. |