Cutlets

Ingredients

• cutlets
• a little milk
• bread-crumbs
• nutmeg
• pepper
• salt
• egg
• lard or dripping
• mashed potatoes
• about a dozen tomatoes
• a small piece onion
• a pat butter

Instructions

1. Trim the cutlets carefully.
2. Lay them in a little milk for five or six hours to make the meat white and tender.
3. Have ready some fine bread-crumbs, nutmeg, pepper, and salt.
4. Roll the cutlets in egg and bread-crumbs.
5. Sprinkle with pepper, salt, and nutmeg.
6. Fry in hot lard.
7. Serve with mashed potatoes.
8. If tomatoes are plentiful, boil about a dozen with a small piece of onion.
9. Strain the tomato mixture and add a pat of butter.
10. Serve the tomato sauce round the cutlets.