Stewed Turtle

Clean a small turtle, place it in a saucepan of cold water, and suflficiently boil it
to enable the meat to be easily removed. Cut out the meat in small pieces, put them
into a saucepan with a seasoning of salt, cayenne pepper, spices and a little lemon ;
add a few hard boiled eggs cut up and sufificient white wine to moisten. Boil until
the meat is quite tender, turn the whole out on to a dish and serve. The meat for
this should be rather over than underdone. The wine and lemon may be substituted
by rich stock or by turtle soup.