253. _To Rost a Leg of Mutton._

Take a leg of mutton cut out all the inside and (leave the skin whole)

chop it small with sewit and some bacon cut in long slips, season it

w^{th} Salt and nutmeg Cloves and mace, Sweet marjorum & time mincet

very small put your meat into your leg of mutton again so rost it make

some of it into balls & sawcidges, take a loine of mutton half rosted,

cut it in steaks and stew it in water put in some wine and the gravey,

season it high with pepper and salt, put in an onion and a bundle of

sweet herbs a little Shallot a spoonfull or 2 of vinegar, Some orange

and lemon some brown buds & pickled mushrooms Take up your meat thicken

it with the yolk of an egg or 2 put in a little Sweet butter & some

Capers so dish it puting the leg of mutton in the middle of the haish.

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