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TO ROAST A SHOULDER OF MUTTON
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TO ROAST A SHOULDER OF MUTTON

2 ingredients 4 steps gutenberg
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Ingredients

  • a cupful of pickled mushrooms
  • half roast

Directions

1

Flour it well, and baste it constantly with its own dripping; do not place it close enough to the fire for the fat to be in the slightest degree burned, or even too deeply browned. An hour and a half will roast it, if it be of moderate size. Stewed onions are often sent to table with it. A shoulder of mutton is sometimes boiled, and smothered with onion sauce.

2

1-1/2 hour.

3

THE CAVALIER’S BROIL.

4

Half roast or stew, or parboil, a small, or moderate-sized shoulder of mutton; lift it into a hot dish, score it on both sides down to the bone, season it well with fine salt and cayenne or pepper, and finish cooking it upon the gridiron over a brisk fire. Skim the fat from any gravy that may have flowed from it, and keep the dish which contains it quite hot to receive the joint again. Warm a cupful of pickled mushrooms, let a part of them be minced, and strew them over the broil when it is ready to be served; arrange the remainder round it, and send it instantly to table. The reader will scarcely need to be told that this is an excellent dish.

By Eliza Acton · Recipe sourced from gutenberg

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