To Dress Lamb's Head and Feet
Origin: Tidewater Virginia
Source: Mary Randolph, 1824
Ingredients
- 1 lamb's head
- 1 lamb's feet
- 1 pint good gravy
- pepper
- salt
- tomato catsup or ripe tomatoes
- lamb's liver
- crisp parsley
- bacon
Instructions
- Clean them very nicely, and boil them till tender.
- 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.
- 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.
- Stew it till tender, and thicken the gravy.
- Lay the liver, cut in slices and broiled, over it.
- Garnish with crisp parsley and bits of curled bacon.