Name: To Cook a Leg of Mutton
Ingredients: one small red pepper; salt; pepper

To Cook a Leg of Mutton

Ingredients

one small red pepper
salt
pepper

Directions

MRS. BELLE WARD.
Put the mutton into warm water, with salt and one small red pepper; boil until tender, allowing the water to boil nearly away; then take it out, and if not seasoned enough, sprinkle with salt, pepper and flour, place in a hot oven with the broth, and bake half an hour, basting often until the meat is a light brown.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

14Calories

0 gProtein

0 gFat

3 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 3 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Des Moines. Plymouth church. [from old catalog]. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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. See the original page.