Mock Turtle (II)

Ingredients

• A knuckle of veal weighing 5 or 6 lbs.
• 2 cow-heels
• 2 large onions stuck with cloves
• 1 bunch sweet herbs
• 3 blade mace
• salt to taste
• 12 peppercorns
• 1 glass sherry
• 24 force-meat balls
• a little lemon-juice
• 4 quart water

Instructions

1. Put all the ingredients, except the force-meat balls and lemon-juice, in an earthen jar, and stew for 6 hours.
2. Do not open it till cold.
3. When wanted for use, skim off all the fat, and strain carefully;
4. place it on the fire, cut up the meat into inch-and-a-half squares, put it, with the force-meat balls and lemon-juice, into the soup, and serve.
5. It can be flavoured with a tablespoonful of anchovy, or Harvey's sauce.