mock-turtle

English

Noun

mock-turtle (uncountable)

1. mock turtle soup
   • 1827, Maria Eliza Rundell, Domestic Economy, and Cookery, for Rich and Poor, page 341:

     This is a rich handsome dish, and an elegant variety of mock-turtle.

   • 1828, Thomas Hood, “The Logicians”, in The Portfolio, of Amusement and Instruction, in History, Science, Literature, the Fine Arts, &c., number 110, page 386:

     O, this is he that disembodied matter,
     And prov’d that incorporeal corporations
     Put nothing in no platter,
     And for mock-turtle only supp’d sensations.

   • 1877, A. G. Payne, Common-Sense Papers on Cookery, page 217:

     Soup, sir? yes, sir; very nice mock-turtle sir—real mock-turtle, sir.