Terrapin a La Maryland

Terrapin
2 ounces sweet butter
salt
pepper
celery salt
paprika
1/4 cup sherry wine
1-1/2 cup cream
two egg yolks

Put terrapin in a kettle,cover with boiling salted water. Cook until tender.

Cut a terrapin in small pieces, about one inch long.

Put the pieces in a saute pan with two ounces of sweet butter, salt, pepper, a very little celery salt, a pinch of paprika. Simmer for a few minutes and then add 1/4 cup sherry wine, which reduce to half by boiling.

Then add one cup of cream, bring to a boil and thicken with two yolks of eggs mixed with a half cup of cream. Let it come to a near boil and add half a glass of dry sherry and serve.

You may thicken the terrapin with the following mixture: Two raw yolks of eggs, two boiled yolks of eggs, one ounce of butter. Rub together and pass through a fine sieve.

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