Mutton
Ingredients
Directions
The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.
Prepare
Preheat your oven to 400°F (200°C).
Season the mutton with coarse sea salt.
Roast
Roast the mutton for 1 hour, or 1 hour and 15 minutes if the weather is frosty.
Baste the meat with fine dripping during cooking.
Ensure the fire is brisk but keep the meat at a safe distance to avoid burning.
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.
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What each ingredient does
- Mutton
- Forms the main body of the dish and provides the rich, meaty flavour as it roasts.
- Fine dripping
- Adds fat that keeps the surface moist and helps it brown evenly when basted over the meat.
The step that matters
Keep the meat at a safe distance from the fire. Strong radiant heat browns the surface quickly. If the meat sits too close, the outside chars and its sugars and fats burn before the interior cooks through, so a brisk fire needs distance to brown gently.
“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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