To Dress Lamb's Head and Feet

Origin: Tidewater Virginia

Source: Mary Randolph, 1824

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Clean them very nicely, and boil them till tender.
  2. Take off the flesh from the head with the eyes; also mince the tongue and heart, which must be boiled with the head. Split the feet in two.
  3. Put them, with the pieces from the head and the mince, into a pint of good gravy, seasoned with pepper, salt, and tomato catsup, or ripe tomatoes.
  4. Stew it till tender, and thicken the gravy.
  5. Lay the liver, cut in slices and broiled, over it.
  6. Garnish with crisp parsley and bits of curled bacon.

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