Mutton, Boiled and Baked

Ingredients

• a plump, compact leg of mutton
• about half a pint of oysters
• a dressing made of bread-crumbs
• a very little thyme
• salt
• pepper
• bits of butter

Method

1. 1

   Take out the bone from the leg of mutton and fill the cavity with a dressing made of bread-crumbs, thyme, salt, pepper, and bits of butter, moistened with oyster-juice.

2. 2

   Add oysters to the dressing.

3. 3

   Sew it up and place in boiling water, completely immersed; boil slowly for half an hour, then place in a dripping-pan, basting frequently while baking.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 252. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Mutton, Boiled and Baked. — Select a. plump, compact leg of mutton, take out the bone, and fill the cavity with a dressing made of bread-crumbs, a very little thyme, salt, pepper, and bits of butter, moisten with oyster - juice, and add about half a pint of oysters

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