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Prep Time: 10 Minutes Cook Time: 1 Minutes |
Ready In: 11 Minutes Servings: 8 |
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The vinegar is not in the original recipe, but gives the sauce a bit of spark. From A Proper Newe Book of Cokerye, 1572. Take a legge of mutton and cot it in small slices, and put it in a chafer, and put therto a pottell of ale, and scome it cleane then putte therto seven or eyghte onions thyn slyced, and after they have boyled one hour, putte therto a dyshe of swete butter, and so lette them boyle tyll they be tender, and then put therto a lyttel peper and salte. Ingredients:
2 lbs leg of lamb or 2 lbs mutton or 2 lbs beef round steak |
1 pint dark beer or 1 pint ale |
2 onions, thinly sliced |
1 teaspoon salt |
ground black pepper, to taste |
2 tablespoons butter |
1/2 teaspoon malt vinegar (optional) or 1/2 teaspoon cider vinegar (optional) |
Directions:
1. Bone the lamb, trimming off any skin or excess fat. Cut into thin slices across the grain.
2. Place meat in a heavy pan with the beer and onions. Cover and simmer for an hour.
3. Add the salt, pepper, butter and vinegar (if using) and continue simmering for 30 minutes, or until tender.
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