Main Ingredients:

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Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

3 Terrapins, 5 to 7-inches
1/2 c Butter
1 Heaping tablespoon flour
1 pt Milk
Salt and pepper
6 Hard boiled eggs
1/2 pt Thick cream
Sherry wine

Boil terrapins and pick out meat; melt butter in a good size sauce
pan. Remove from fire, and blend in flour; stir in milk gradually,
and season with salt and pepper. Chop egg whites and add with
terrapin meat to milk mixture; stir in mashed yolks of eggs. Return
to stove and simmer until thickened. Last add cream, and sherry wine
to your taste.

Mrs. J. Millard Tawes Government House, Annapolis

Reprinted with kind permission from "Maryland's Way, The
Hammond-Harwood House Cookbook," pub. by The Hammond-Harwood House
Association, c. 1963. Available for purchase by calling (410)
263-4683.

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