An Irish Stew

Ingredients

• 2 lbs small thick mutton cutlets
• 4 lbs potatoes
• 0.5 oz pepper
• 1 oz salt
• 0.75 pint cold water
• onion, minced

Instructions

1. Slice the potatoes thick and peel them.
2. Lay a portion of sliced potatoes in a flat layer in a large thick saucepan or stewpan.
3. Season the mutton cutlets well with pepper.
4. Place some of the seasoned mutton on the layer of potatoes.
5. Cover the mutton with another layer of potatoes.
6. Continue layering mutton and potatoes in alternation until all ingredients are used, reserving plenty of potato for the top layer.
7. If using onion, strew minced onion over the potatoes.
8. Pour in three quarters of a pint of cold water.
9. Bring the stew to a boil, then add an ounce of salt.
10. Let it simmer gently for two hours.
11. Serve very hot.