Excellent Way to Cook a Breast of Mutton

Ingredients

• a breast of mutton
• a little fat or butter
• a little flour
• two onions
• a quart of young green peas
• two or three slices of bacon
• sufficient water

Method

1. 1

   Cut the breast into pieces, fry until brown, then add flour, onions, and herbs.

2. 2

   Cover with water and simmer until tender.

3. 3

   Add peas and bacon, boil gently until done.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The hearthstone; or, Life at home (1883) by Laura C. Holloway, page 279. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Excellent Way to Cook a Breast of Mutton. — Cut the breast of mutton into pieces about two inches square, and let it be tolerably lean ; put it into a stewpan, with a little fat or butter, and fry it of a nice brown. Then dredge in a little flour, slice two onions, and put them with the herbs in the stewpan ; pour in sufficient water just to cover the meat, and simmer the whole gently until the mutton is tender. Take out the meat, strain, and skim off all the fat from the gravy, and put both the meat and the gravy back into the stewpan ; add about a quart of young green peas, and let them boil gently until done ; two or three slices of bacon

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