BAKED MINCED MUTTON (Cold Meat Cookery)

Ingredients

• The remains of any joint of cold roast mutton
• 1-2 onions
• 1 bunch savoury herbs
• pepper and salt to taste
• 2 blade pounded mace or nutmeg
• 2 tablespoonful gravy
• mashed potatoes

Instructions

1. Mince an onion rather fine, and fry it a light-brown colour;
2. add the herbs and mutton, both of which should be also finely minced and well mixed;
3. season with pepper and salt, and a little pounded mace or nutmeg, and moisten with the above proportion of gravy.
4. Put a layer of mashed potatoes at the bottom of a dish, then the mutton, and then another layer of potatoes, and bake for about 1/2 hour.