=Leg of Mutton Cooked in Cider.=--Buy the leg of mutton two or three
days before you wish to serve it. Take off the "woolly" skin that has
the strong taste on the outside and wipe carefully with a damp cloth.
Then rub with a mixture of spices, using half a teaspoonful each of
cinnamon, cloves, allspice, pepper and nutmeg. Rub thoroughly and hang
the mutton in a cool place for two days; then put in a well-greased bag,
adding four onions chopped fine, a cupful seedless raisins and a cupful
of sweet cider. Put in hot oven and bake half an hour, then reduce the
heat, and cook an hour and a half. Serve with a hot cider sauce.
=Mutton Chops and Sausage.=--Place two thick chops in a wooden dish with
three links of sausage. Season lightly with salt and pepper, lay two
strips of bacon over the top of the chops and seal in bag. Bake from
twenty minutes to half an hour in a moderate oven.
=Ragout of Lamb.=--Grease the bag well, and lay in a layer of sliced raw
potatoes, seasoned lightly. Put on top of the potatoes a layer of meat,
seasoned with salt, pepper and chopped parsley, and lay thin slices of
onion across meat. Add one-half cup canned tomato or tomato sauce, cover
the whole with another layer of sliced potato, seal, and bake
thirty-five minutes. You may use a wooden cooking dish here to
advantage.
=Roast Leg of Lamb.=--Trim nicely and rub over with oil, dredge with a
little flour and season with salt, pepper and powdered mint. Seal and
bake two hours. Serve with mint sauce.
=A Genuine Irish Stew.=--Cut two pounds of chops from the best end of a
neck of mutton, and pare away nearly all the fat. A portion of the
breast may be cut into squares and used, but a neck of mutton is the
best joint for the purpose. Take as many potatoes as will amount after
peeling to twice the weight of the meat. Slice them with eight large
onions sliced. Put a layer of mixed potatoes and onions at the bottom of
the buttered paper bag. Place the meat on this and season it plentifully
with pepper and lightly with salt. Pack closely, and cover the meat with
another layer of potato and onion. Pour in as much water or stock as
will moisten the topmost layer, seal tightly, and let the contents cook
gently for two and a half hours. You may use one of the large wooden
cooking dishes here.
CHAPTER XII.
PORK IN VARIED FORMS.
=Bacon and Apples.=--CORE, but do not peel, well flavored apples and cut
in crosswise rings about a quarter of an inch thick. Lay on thin slices
of streaky bacon in a well-buttered bag, dust lightly with sugar, seal
and cook eight minutes in a hot oven.
=Bacon and Bananas.=--Peel firm bananas, halve them lengthwise, dust
lightly with pepper and wrap each in a thin slice of streaky bacon. Put
in a well-greased bag, seal and cook in a hot oven ten minutes.
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