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Mutton Cutlets à la Macédoine

A historical recipe from The Skilful Cook A Practical Manual of Modern Experience, by Mary Harrison (1905).

A historical recipe

The Skilful Cook A Practical Manual of Modern Experience, by Mary Harrison (1905). Project Gutenberg eBook #29007.

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From The Skilful Cook A Practical Manual of Modern Experience, by Mary Harrison (1905). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #29007 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29007). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Ingredients--Part of best end of neck of mutton.
  2. 1 egg.
  3. Bread-crumbs.
  4. 3 oz.
  5. of clarified butter.
  6. Seasoning.
  7. Method.--Saw off the chine bone, and the ends of the rib bones, leaving the cutlet bone three inches in length.
  8. Cut the cutlets with a bone to each, and beat them with a cutlet bat to about half an inch in thickness.
  9. Trim them, and leave half an inch of the rib bone bare.
  10. Season, egg and bread-crumb, and fry in clarified butter in a sauté pan for five or seven minutes.
  11. Dish on a border of mashed potatoes, put a macédoine of vegetables in the centre, and pour brown sauce round them.