Roasting Mutton

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
Status
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Ingredients (7)
Mutton cuts
Instructions (7)
  1. A leg of mutton of six pounds will take an hour at a quick fire; if frosty weather an hour and a quarter.
  2. Nine pounds will take an hour and a half.
  3. A leg of twelve pounds will take two hours: if frosty two hours and a half.
  4. A large saddle of mutton will take an hour and a half; and so on according to the size.
  5. A breast will take half an hour at a quick fire.
  6. A neck, if large, an hour; if very small, little better than half an hour.
  7. A shoulder will take much about the same time as a leg.
Original Text
A leg of mutton of six pounds will take an hour at a quick fire; if frosty weather an hour and a quarter; nine pounds an hour and a half; a leg of twelve pounds will take two hours: if frosty two hours and a half; a large saddle of mutton will take an hour and a half; and so on according to the size; a breast will take half an hour at a quick fire; a neck, if large, an hour; if very small, little better than half an hour, a shoulder much about the same time as a leg.
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