Irish Stew of Cooked Meat

Ingredients

• 6 potatoes.
• 1 lb. cooked mutton.
• 4 onions.
• ½ pint hot water.
• Pepper and salt.

Method

1. 1

   Boil onions and steam potatoes for half an hour.

2. 2

   Cut mutton, onions, and potatoes into slices.

3. 3

   Layer in a saucepan, add seasoning and water, and simmer until warmed through.

4. 4

   Serve hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Chambers's cookery for young housewives (1894) by Annie M. Griggs, page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

IRISH STEW OF COOKED MEAT. 45 quite hot, dish with small pieces of toasted bread round and poached eggs on the top. TO MAKE CROQUETS. £ lb. cooked meat. 1 oz. fat. 1 lb. cooked potatoes. Rice or bread crumbs. Pepper and salt. 2 eggs. 1 table-spoonful chopped parsley. J table-spoonful chopped lemon-rind. Bread crumbs. Fat for frying. Mince the meat and fat very finely ; mix with it the parsley, potato, lemon-peel, salt, pepper, and yolk of an egg. Mix all thoroughly, and moisten with gravy. Form the mix- ture into balls ; dip them into a beaten egg, then in crumbs of bread, and fry to a light brown colour. Drain on porous paper. Serve on a folded napkin, and garnish with parsley. TO MAKE RISSOLES. I lb. cooked meat. 1 table-spoonful ketchup. i lb. flour. 3 oz. dripping. Pepper and salt. 1 table-spoonful chopped parsley. 1 egg. Bread crumbs. Fat for frying. Mince the meat, and season with ketchup, pepper, and salt. Rub the dripping with the flour until there are no lumps. Add a pinch of salt and enough cold water to mix a dough. Roll out very thin and cut it in pieces of an oval shape. Wet round the edges of the paste, and put a small quantity of the meat on one half ; fold the other part of the paste over, and secure by pinching round the edges. Dip into a beaten egg and the crumbs of bread, and fry to a pale brown colour ; drain on porous paper. Serve hot on a folded napkin, and garnish with parsley. We recommend croquets and rissoles as excellent methods of preparing and using up cold meat. IRISH STEW OF COOKED MEAT. 6 potatoes. | 4 pint hot water. 1 lb. cook©d mutton. I 4 onions.

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