Boiled Leg of Mutton
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Place the leg of mutton in a large pot and cover it with water.
Bring the water to a boil.
Cook
Cook for 1 hour and 15 minutes for rare, adding 5 minutes for each additional pound.
Save the cooking water for soups.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Mutton
- Provides the main protein and fat; its connective tissue softens and its meat sets as it cooks.
The step that matters
Cooking time by weight. Heat reaches the centre of a large cut slowly, so the time must match its weight. Too little time leaves the middle underdone, and too much dries and toughens the outer meat.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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