MUTTON COLLOPS (Cold Meat Cookery)

Ingredients

• A few slices of a cold leg or loin of mutton
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1 blade pounded mace
• 1 small bunch of savoury herbs minced very fine
• 2-3 shalots
• 2-3 oz butter
• 1 dessertspoonful flour
• 1/2 pint gravy
• 1 tablespoonful lemon-juice

Instructions

1. Cut some very thin slices from a leg or the chump end of a loin of mutton;
2. sprinkle them with pepper, salt, pounded mace, minced savoury herbs, and minced shalot;
3. fry them in butter, stir in a dessertspoonful of flour, add the gravy and lemon-juice, simmer very gently about 5 or 7 minutes, and serve immediately.