Hot Pot

Ingredients

• 2 lbs. cold cooked mutton
• 2 large onions
• 6 medium-sized potatoes
• 1 quart water or stock
• 1 tablespoonful chopped parsley

Method

1. 1

   Cut the mutton into pieces one inch square.

2. 2

   Pare and cut four potatoes into dice, also onions.

3. 3

   Put a layer of the mutton in the bottom of a baking dish, then a layer of potatoes, sprinkling of onion, parsley, salt, and pepper.

4. 4

   Continue these alternations until all is used.

5. 5

   Cut the remaining two potatoes into three slices each; cover these over the top, add the water or stock, and bake in a moderate oven two hours; serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Manual for army cooks (1896) by United States. War Dept. Subsistence Dept., page 46. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

HOT POT. 2 lbs. cold cooked mutton. 2 large onions. 6 medium-sized potatoes. 1 quart water or stock. 1 tablespoonful chopped parsley

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