Haricot Mutton (II)

Ingredients

• Breast or scrag of mutton
• flour
• pepper and salt to taste
• 1 large onion
• 3 cloves
• a bunch of savoury herbs
• 1 blade mace
• carrots and turnips
• sugar

Instructions

1. Cut the mutton into square pieces, and fry them a nice colour;
2. then dredge over them a little flour and a seasoning of pepper and salt.
3. Put all into a stewpan, and moisten with boiling water, adding the onion, stuck with 3 cloves, the mace, and herbs.
4. Simmer gently till the meat is nearly done, skim off all the fat, and then add the carrots and turnips, which should previously be cut in dice and fried in a little sugar to colour them.
5. Let the whole simmer again for 10 minutes;
6. take out the onion and bunch of herbs, and serve.