Recipe: Delicious Mom's 70s Mock Turtle Soup

Mom's 70s Mock Turtle Soup.

You can cook Mom's 70s Mock Turtle Soup using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Mom's 70s Mock Turtle Soup

1. You need of Ingredients.
2. It’s 20 of gingersnap cookies (preferably nabisco).
3. Prepare 2 cup of water.
4. It’s 2 lb of 90/10 ground beef.
5. It’s 4 cup of water.
6. Prepare 1 medium of onion, diced.
7. It’s 1 of 14-ounce bottle ketchup.
8. It’s 1/2 cup of worcestershire sauce (preferably Lea & Perrin's).
9. It’s 1 tbsp of apple cider vinegar.
10. You need 2 tsp of sea salt.
11. You need 1/2 tsp of ground black pepper.
12. It’s 3/4 medium of lemon, thinly sliced.
13. Prepare 3 of hard boiled eggs, crumbled.
14. Prepare of additional water, worcestershire, & and lemon juice if needed.
15. It’s 1 of shot of sherry and oyster crackers on the side.

Mom's 70s Mock Turtle Soup step by step

1. Soak the gingersnaps in 2 cups of water and set aside..
2. In a large soup pot, add the 4 cups of water and the ground beef. Simmer over medium heat, breaking up the ground beef, until there is no more pink..
3. Add the onions, ketchup, worchestershire, vinegar, salt, pepper, and lemon. Let simmer in a covered pot for 1 hour..
4. Stir in the gingersnap slurry and continue cooking for another 15 minutes..
5. If the soup is a little to thick, add some additional water. Be sure to add additional Worcestershire and lemon juice to taste..
6. Serve garnished with hard boiled egg and serve with a shot of sherry and oyster crackers on the side..