Creamed Terrapin Recipe ingredients

To prepare this Creamed Terrapin Recipe, first mix in the blazer two tablespoons of butter and one of flour and gradually stir in one pint of cream, a teaspoon of salt, a saltspoon of white pepper, the same of grated nutmeg, a pinch of cayenne pepper and a pint of terrapin meat, stirring all until scalding hot. Place over the hot water pan where the contents will keep hot but will not boil. Then stir in four well-beaten eggs, but do not allow the terrapin to boil after adding the eggs. Just before serving put in a gill of good sherry wine, if liked, and a tablespoon of lemon juice.