Lamb Recipes

Ballotin Of Lamb With Green Peas Recipe

1. Bone a 3-pound shoulder of lamb--the end bone may be left for a handle.
2. Season with a teaspoonful each of salt and pepper; sew up and fasten securely with string, and boil in stock pot for five minutes.
3. Let it cool, and grease the top with a larding-needle.
4. Put it in a saucepan with a small, thin strip of fat pork, and a chopped potato, beet, and onion.
5. Cook eight or ten minutes, till lightly browned; then turn over a pint of broth and Spanish sauce in equal parts and cook in the oven about forty-five minutes.
6. Then strain the sauce over a pint of boiled green peas, and cook for two or three minutes more.
7. Take the strings from the ballotin; place it on top of the vegetable garnishing on a hot dish, and serve.

Minced Mutton Recipe

Ingredients for Minced Mutton

• 2 cups chopped cooked mutton
• Yolks 6 "hard-boiled" eggs
• ¾ teaspoon mixed mustard
• Salt
• Cayenne
• 1 cup of cream
• ¼ cup wine

Instructions

1. Mash the yolks, and season with mustard, salt, and cayenne.
2. Add cream and mutton.
3. When thoroughly heated add wine.
4. Serve on toast.