Braised Loin of Mutton
From A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922.
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Ingredients
Method
Remove the bone from the mutton, rub with a mixture of salt, pepper, and red pepper, then roll and tie securely with tape.
Cut up the celery, onion, carrot, and turnip, and place them at the bottom of a saucepan along with the herbs and parsley.
Lay the mutton on top of the vegetables, add enough boiling water to three-parts cover it, and simmer slowly for two hours.
Transfer the mutton to a roasting tin with a few tablespoons of the cooking liquid, and brown in a hot oven (400 degrees Fahrenheit).
Strain the remaining cooking liquid and skim off the fat.
Melt Crisco in a saucepan, stir in flour, gradually add the strained gravy, season with salt and pepper, add mushrooms, and boil for eight minutes.
Place the mutton on a hot platter surrounded by the mushrooms, and pour the gravy over it.
Original recipe, verbatim
Braised Loin of Mutton
3 lbs. loin mutton 1 turnip
3 tablespoonfuls Crisco 1 carrot
1 celery stalk 3 cloves
}4 teaspoonful whole white peppers 2 sprigs parsley
1 bunch sweet herbs 4 tablespoonfuls flour
Salt, pepper, and red pepper 12 button mushrooms
to taste 1 onion
Remove bone from mutton, rub with a little salt, pepper and red pepper mixed together; roll up and tie in neat roll with tape; cut up celery, onion, carrot and turnip, and lay them at bottom of saucepan with herbs and parsley; lay mutton on top of these, and pour enough boiling water to three parts cover it, and simmer slowly two hours; lift mutton into roasting tin with a few tablespoonfuls of the gravy; set in hot oven until brown; strain gravy and skim oflF fat, melt Crisco in saucepan, add flour, then add gravy gradually, seasoning of salt and pepper, mushrooms, and boil eight minutes. Set mutton on hot platter with mushrooms round, and gravy strained over.
Transcribed as printed in A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922. Spelling and punctuation are left as in the source scan.
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