Roast Reef
Ingredients
Directions
Weigh the mutton and wash it by dipping it into very hot water, then dry it.
Ensure the fire is bright and red to provide sufficient heat.
Hang the joint in front of the fire to roast.
Place a Yorkshire pudding under the meat to catch the dripping.
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.
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