Baked Lamb

Ingredients

• 1 hind-quarter of lamb
• pepper
• salt
• cloves of garlic
• 1 pint water
• 12 large ripe tomatoes
• butter
• brown flour

Instructions

1. Cut the shank bone from a hind-quarter and separate the joints of the loin.
2. Lay it in a pan with the kidney uppermost.
3. Sprinkle on some pepper and salt, and add a few cloves of garlic, a pint of water, and a dozen large ripe tomatoes with the skins taken off.
4. Bake it, but do not let it be burnt.
5. Thicken the gravy with a little butter and brown flour.