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Turtle Soup
It is good for a wounded center, and increases qi. It supplements [in cases of] insufficiency.
Mutton (leg; bone and cut up), tsaoko cardamoms (five).
Boil ingredients together into a soup. Strain [broth]. Cook five or six turtles. When done, remove the skin and bones, and cut into lumps [and add to soup]. Use two liang of flour to make fine vermicelli. Roast together with one he of juice of sprouting ginger, one liang of black pepper. [Add to soup and] adjust flavors with onions, salt, and vinegar.

Bear Soup
It treats migratory arthralgia insensitivity and [evil] foot qi.
Bear meat (two legs; cook. When done cut into chunks), tsaoko cardamoms (three).
[Boil] ingredients [together into a soup]. Use three qian of black pepper, one qian of kasni, two qian of turmeric, two qian of grain–of–paradise [seed of Amomum villosum or A. xanthioides], one qian of za’faran. Adjust flavors of everything together with onions, salt, and sauce.

Roast Wolf Soup
Ancient bencao do not include entries on wolf meat. At present we state that its nature is heating. It treats asthenia. I have never heard that it is poisonous for those eating it. In the case of the present recipe we use spices to help its flavor. It warms the five internal organs, and warms the center.
Wolf meat (leg; bone and cut up), tsaoko cardamoms (three), black pepper (five qian), kasni (one qian), long pepper (two qian), grain–of–paradise (two qian), turmeric (two qian), za’faran (one qian).
Boil ingredients together into a soup. Adjust flavors of everything using onions, sauce, salt, and vinegar.