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Mint Sauce for Lamb

From Virginia Cookery-book, 1884

Serves 4

This sauce is indispensable for young lamb in spring.

Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from Virginia Cookery-book (1884) by Mary Stuart Smith, page 58. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Mint Saucb fob Lamb. Gather a few sprigs of branch mint, pick off the tender young leaves after washing the mint clean ; lay them in a plate and chop up fine with a common dinner-knife ; put the mint in the bottom of a sauce-boat, add a full table-spoonful of white sugar, two table-spoonfuls of vin- egar, and half a gill of ice-water

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