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A Leg of Mutton in Four Meals

A recipe using a leg of mutton to produce four meals: boiled knuckle, cutlets, roasted joint, and hash.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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A Leg of Mutton in Four Meals

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut off a knuckle from the leg of mutton and boil it in water until tender.

  2. From the remaining joint, cut as many cutlets as needed for your family.

  3. Roast the leftover joint in the oven until cooked through.

  4. Use the remains from both the boiled and roasted meat to make a hash for a fourth meal.

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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What each ingredient does

Leg of mutton
Provides the meat for all four meals, so each cut and cooking method uses a different part of the joint.

“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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