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1892

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Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Lamb Cutlets with Mushrooms. — Cut five cutlets, slant- wise, from three necks of Lamb, trim them, cut off the piece of bone at the back, and beat slightly with a cutlet-bat. Put them in a frying-pan in which there is some hot clarified butter, sprinkle a little salt over, and fry both sides over a brisk fire for twelve minutes ; add 2 or 3 table-spoonfuls of melted glaze, reduce, dip a brush into the mixture, and glaze the cutlets with it. Place a ruffle round the end of each bone, put a puree of mushrooms in the centre of the dish, place the cutlets lengthwise on a border of potatoes round them, and finish with an outside border of small mushroom- headLamb Cutlets with Mushroomss. Lamb Cutlets with New Carrots. — Procure very small new carrots, and scrape and boil them until tender in salted water ; trim the cutlets nicely, dip them in beaten egg, and roll in finely-grated breadcrumb, giving them a good coating. Put a large lump of lardLamb Cutlets with New Carrots in a flat stewpan, and when boiling put in the cutlets, and fry them until delicately browned ; take them out of the fat as they are cooked, and put them Lamb — continued. to drain on a sheet of kitchen-paper in front of the fire. Drain the carrots when cooked, and put in the saucepan with them a lump of fresh butter and a moderate quantity of finely-chopped parsley ; squeeze over them half the juice of a small lemon, season to taste with salt and pepper, and a small quantity of caster sugar. Moisten the carrots with 1 or 2 table-spoonfuls of common stock, and toss them over the fire for a few minutes. Arrange the cutlets in a circle on a hot dish, pile the carrots in the centre, garnish with a border of fried parsley, and serve. Lamb Cutlets with Peas Sautes. — Trim a dozen cutlets of Lamb, and season with pepper and salt ; dip them in beaten eggs, roll them in breadcrumbs, and fry in clarified butter. Cook 1 pint of green peas in salted wa?er, drain them, put them in a stewpan with 3oz. to 5oz. of butter, and toss them over a fire. When the butter is melted, pour them into the centre of the cutlets, having previously arranged them on a dish in a circle, and serve very hot. Lamb Cutlets Sautes. — Cut two necks of Lamb into cutlets, trim them, sprinkle salt and pepper over, dip them in clarified butter, and fry in a saute-pan ; when nicely browned, drain them. Put a croustade full of French beans on a hot dish, arrange the cutlets round them, and serve with bechamel sauce separately in a small tureen. Lamb Cutlets with Spinach. — Cut a neck of Lamb into cutlets, trim them to a nice shape, brush over with warmed butter, and season with saltLamb Cutlets with Peas Sautes and pepper ; put them in a double gridiron, and broil in front of a clear fire. Pick the spinach over, and wash it in several waters, as it is very gritty ; boil it, and when cooked, drain on a fine hair sieve. Put loz. of butter and 1 table-spoonful of flour into a sauce- pan, and stir them over the fire until well mixed ; pass the spinach through the sieve into the butter, moisten with a small quantity of milk, season to taste with salt and pepper, and stir it over the fire until boiling. Pile the spinach in the centre of a hot dish, arrange the cutlets round it, and serve.