Braised Leg or Saddle of Mutton

Ingredients

• 1 leg or saddle of mutton
• 1 tablespoon butter or lard
• 1 teacup stock, water or a little Lem co.
• 2 large onions stuck with 2 cloves
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon pepper
• (Bunch of parsley if available)

Method

1. 1

   Put the butter in the large flat saucepan, when quite hot put in the leg or saddle (if leg the handle joint should be cut off to make it smaller), turn it till it is a nice brown all over, add salt, pepper, the onion cut in quarters and the teacup of stock.

2. 2

   Put the cover tight on the saucepan, let it simmer very slowly for one and a half hours if a leg, for half an hour if a saddle.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Practical West African cookery (1910) by S. Leith-Ross, page 46. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Braised Leg or Saddle of Mutton. (I). 1 leg or saddle of mutton. 1 tablespoon butter or lard. 1 teacup stock, water or a little Lem co. 2 large onions stuck with 2 cloves. £ teaspoon salt. | teaspoon pepper. (Bunch of parsley if available). When mutton is poor, as in Nigeria, it is generally nicer to braise than to roast it, the process is quite simple. 1. Put the butter in the large flat saucepan, when quite hot pub in the leg or saddle (if leg the handle joint should be cut off to make it smaller), turn it till it is a nice brown all over, add salt, pepper, the onion cut in quarters and the teacup of stock. Put the cover tight on the saucepan, let it simmer very slowly for one and a half hours if a leg, for half an hour if a saddle. Notes. — Any vegetables, carrots, turnips, yam or sweet potatoes can be added to the meat, put in the carrots and turnips at the same time as the stock, the yam or sweet potatoes when it is half cooked. A Welbank Boilerette comes in very useful for braising beef or mutton. Cold leg or saddle of mutton roasted or braised is good with any sort of salad or mint sauce (see index). Boiled Leg of 1 leg of mutton. 2 large onious stuck with cloves. 3 berkono or a teaspoon pepper. Mutton. (I). 1 teaspoon salt

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