Ragout of Lamb (Fore-Quarter)

Ingredients

• the fore-quarter of lamb
• sweet herbs
• mace
• pepper
• salt
• two dozen oysters
• a glass of port
• a few mushrooms
• a little butter rolled in flour

Method

1. 1

   Cut off the knuckle bone, lard, and fry until colored.

2. 2

   Cover with gravy, add herbs, mace, pepper, and salt.

3. 3

   Stew for half an hour, strain, remove fat, and add oysters, port, mushrooms, and butter.

4. 4

   Boil and squeeze in lemon juice before serving.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Recipes for the million (1891), page 122. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

salt, two drams of pounded mace, and one dram of cayenne pepper ; boil it up again for a second or two, skim, and rub it through a sieve. When cold pour it into bottles, cork well, and seal the bottles down. KETCHUP (WALNUT). — Beat up in a mortar a hundred green walnuts, and put them into a jar with half a pound of sliced eschalots, a head of garlic, half a pound of salt, and half a gallon of vinegar. Stand them by for a fortnight, stirring them night and morning. Strain off the liquor and boil it for half an hour, adding two ounces of anchovies, two ounces of whole pepper, half ail ounce of cloves, and a quarter of an ounce of mace ; skim it well, strain, and let it stand till cold, then pour it gently from the sediment into bottles. Cork securely, and store in a dry place. The sedi- ment may be used for flavouring sauces. KETTLES (BRASS AND COPPER), To Clean.— The appli- cation of a little salt and vinegar will keep brass and copper kettles clean, and will prevent them becoming deleterious to health. KIDNEY PUDDING. — Cut the kidney in slices, soak it, and season with pepper and salt. Line a basin with suet crust, put in the kidney, cover with paste, tie in a cloth and boil. These puddings are also made with the addition of stcnk. KIDNEYS (BROILED ). — Slice them through the long way, score them, sprinkle them with pepper and salt, run a skewer through them, and broil over a clear fire for ten or twelve minutes, turning them frequently with a fork, but taking care not to allow the prongs to enter them, other- wise the gravy will be lost. KIDNEYS (FRIED). — Put the kidneys into a frying-pan with a little butter, fry them for a quarter of an hour over a brisk fire, and when they are done remove them from the pan, stir into the gravy a spoonful of flour, and when this has browned add as much water as will make a gravy. KNIVES (HANDLES OF), Cement for. — Mix together four parts of resin, one part of beeswax, and one part of fine brick-dust. Fill the apertures of the handles with the mixture, then heat the stocks of the knives and force them into the handles. Directly they are cold they will ba 1 firmly set. Ill KNIVES (HANDLES OF), To Remove Stains from.— If rubbed for a few moments with a piece of wet flannel dipped in table salt, all the stains will quickly disappear. KNOCK-KNEES, To Straighten. — Place a small book between the knees and tie a handkerchief tightly round the ankles ; repeat this two or three times a day, increasing the width of the book at each trial. When in bed lie with the legs crossed and the knees fixed tightly together. KOUMISS. — Fill a strong champagne bottle with mare’s milk, and add one ounce of sugar and a teaspoonful of good yeast. Cork and wire the bottle. Put it into a dark cellar, shaking it occasionally each day. It will be fit to drink on the fifth day, and will keep good for close on three weeks. Open carefully as this spirituous liquor effervesces like champagne. It is of special value in pulmonary consumption. KRINGLES. — Beat the yolks of six eggs and the whites of two, and mix with six ounces of warm butter ; knead to a paste with a pound of flour and six ounces of sugar ; roll into thick cakes, and bake on tin plates. LACE (BLACK), To Renovate. — Wash the lace lightly in warm water with which bullock’s gall has been incorporated ; rinse in cold water ; then pass it through a weak solution of glue, clap it with the hands until most of the moisture is expressed, and pin it out evenly to dry. LACE (BLOND), To Revive. — Blond lace may be revived by breathing upon it, and then shaking and flapping it. If an iron be used the lace will turn yellow. LACE VEILS, To Clean. — Soap them well and lay them for .wenty-four hours in just enough water to cover them. If they are much discoloured change the water at the expiration of that period and let them soak again, then rinse, immerse them in weak starch water, prick out as evenly as possible, roll them in a towel till they are nearly dry, then press them with a warm iron. LACE (WHITE), To Wash. — Boil some rice to a pulp, then dilute it with warm water, wash the lace therein, and pin it out to dry. This method imparts both clearness and stiffness. LACQUERED GOODS, To Clean. — Warm soap-suds will generally suffice to cleanse these articles, but if they are very dirty the following may be used : Finely-powdered rotten-stone, one ounce ; sweet oil, one teaspoonful ; oxalic acid, two drams, and water sufficient to make into a paste. LACQUER FOR BRASS, A Good. — Seed-lac, dragon’s blood, gamboge, and anotta, of each four ounces ; saffron, one ounce, and spirits of wine, ten pints. LACQUER FOR TINPLATE. — Best alcohol, eight ounces; turmeric, four drams ; hay saffron, two scruples ; dragon’s blood, four scruples; red Sanders, one scruple; shellac, one ounce ; gum-sandarach, two drams ; gum-mastic, two drams ; Canada balsam, two drams ; when dis- solved add eighty drops of spirits of turpentine. LAMB (BREAST OF), To Stew. — Remove the chine-bone, cut the meat into pieces, put it into a stew-pot, cover with gravy, and stew till tender ; thicken the same, add a glass of sherry wine, and serve with stewed mushrooms or boiled cucumbers. LAMB CHOPS OR CU I LETS. — Dip them in bread-crumbs, chopped parsley, a little grated lemon, and the yolk of an egg. Fry slightly brown, and serve with a little brown gravy poured over them. LAMB (FORE-QUARTER OF), To Ragout. — Cut off the knuckle bone and remove all the skin. Lard it with bacon and fry to a nice colour ; then put it in a saucepan, cover with gravy, add sweet herbs, I I 2 and season with mace, pepper, and salt ; cover closely and stew for half an hour. Strain off the gravy, remove the fat, and add two dozen oysters, a glass of port, a few mushrooms, and a little butter rolled in flour

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