Mutton Stew

Ingredients

• 2½ pounds of mutton
• 4 ounces salt pork
• 3 onions
• 1 tablespoonful salt
• 1 even teaspoonful pepper
• 1 quart of peeled potatoes
• 1 ounce butter
• 1 tablespoonful flour

Method

1. 1

   Gut mutton into 2-inch pieces, place in a saucepan, cover with boiling water.

2. 2

   Add salt pork, onions, salt, and pepper.

3. 3

   Cook for 1 hour, strain broth, remove fat, return broth to mutton, add potatoes, cook until done.

4. 4

   Mix butter with flour, add to stew, cook until smooth, then serve.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 7 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from European and American cuisine (1914) by Lemcke, Mrs. Gesine Knubel, page 219. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Mutton Stew. — Gut 2Ys pounds of mutton from the breast or shoulder into 2-inch pieces, place them in a saucepan, cover with boiling water ; add 4 ounces salt pork cut into small slices, 3 onions cut into quarters, 1 tablespoonful salt, 1 even teaspoon- f nl pepper, cover and cook ly, hour ; then strain the broth through a sieve, remove every particle of fat Beturn the broth to the mutton, add 1 quart of peeled potatoes cut into quarters, cook until the potatoes are done; mix 1 ounce butter with 1 tablespoonful flour, add it to the stew, cook until smooth, then serve. Old-fashioned Mutton Potpie. — Take 2 pounds mutton chops off the loin, remove the fat, and cut each chop into 2 pieces ; cut 2 kidneys into slices and also 2 onions, and peel 6 medium-sized potatoes. Line an iron pot around the sides with pie crust (do not put any crust on the bottom), put in layers alternately of the meat, onions, potatoes, and a few thin slices of salt pork ; season with salt and pepper and cover with the same crust ; then pour in sufficient boil- ing water to cover the crust, close the pot tightly, and boil slowly IV4 hour. In serving, cut the crust into pieces, lay them on a warm dish to form a border, and put the rest in the center. Mutton Pie. — Take 2 pounds of mutton

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