Braised Leg of Mutton

Ingredients

• 1 small leg of mutton
• 4 carrots
• 3 onions
• 1 faggot of savoury herbs
• a bunch of parsley
• seasoning to taste of pepper and salt
• a few slices of bacon
• a few veal trimmings
• 1/2 pint gravy or water

Instructions

1. Line the bottom of a braising-pan with a few slices of bacon, put in the carrots, onions, herbs, parsley, and seasoning, and over these place the mutton.
2. Cover the whole with a few more slices of bacon and the veal trimmings, pour in the gravy or water, and stew very gently for 4 hours.
3. Strain the gravy, reduce it to a glaze over a sharp fire, glaze the mutton with it, and send it to table, placed on a dish of white haricot beans boiled tender, or garnished with glazed onions.