Mrs Beetons Meat Recipes Revisited
Hodge Podge
(Cold Meat Cookery)
About 450g (1lb) underdone cold Mutton
600ml (1 pint) Green Peas
115ml (4floz) Water
5-6 Spring Onions
2 Lettuces
50g (2oz) Butter
Salt and Pepper, to taste
Mince the mutton and cut up the lettuces and slice the onions.
Put in a saucepan, with all the ingredients (except the peas).
Simmer very gently for 45 minutes, stirring frequently.
Boil the peas separately, mix with the mutton and serve very hot.
Time: 45 minutes.
Sufficient for 3 or 4 persons.
Seasonable from the end of May to August.
HODGE-PODGE
(Cold Meat Cookery)
720. INGREDIENTS - About 1 lb. of underdone cold mutton, 2 lettuces, 1 pint of green peas, 5 or 6 green onions, 2 oz. of butter, pepper and salt to taste, 1/2 teacupful of water.
Mode - Mince the mutton, and cut up the lettuces and onions in slices. Put these in a stewpan, with all the ingredients except the peas, and let these simmer very gently for 3/4 hour, keeping them well stirred. Boil the peas separately, mix these with the mutton, and serve very hot.
Time - 3/4 hour.
Sufficient for 3 or 4 persons.
Seasonable from the end of May to August.
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