This section is from the book "The Institute Cook Book", by Helen Cramp. Also available from Amazon: The Institute Cook Book.
Roasting - hind-quarter, leg, loin, breast.
Broiling - chops from loin, or breast, steaks from leg.
Boiling - leg.
Stewing - chops from fore-quarter, the neck or leg.
Soup - shoulder, neck, leg.
Broth - neck.
1 cup bread crumbs
2 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon chopped parsley 1 egg
Juice of one lemon 1 teaspoon salt 1 saltspoon pepper Shoulder of mutton
Have the blade removed from the shoulder and fill the space with a stuffing made in the usual way. Sew up the opening and roast the shoulder, putting a little water in the pan and basting frequently. Allow from fifteen to eighteen minutes to the pound, and when done make a brown sauce in the pan.
The stuffing may be varied by the addition of chopped meat, celery, onion, oysters, mushrooms, etc.
2 tablespoons chopped onion 2 tablespoons butter or drippings Salt and pepper
2 cups water
1½ pounds mutton or lamb
Cooked lima beans
Select lean meat and cut it into two-inch pieces. Fry the onions in the butter; add the meat; season and brown; cover with water;
1. Neck
2. Chuck
3. Shoulder
4. Flank
5. Loin
6. Leg
Diagram of Cuts of Lamb and Mutton cook until tender and serve in a border of lima beans, well cooked and seasoned with salt, pepper, butter and chopped parsley.
Bone the shoulder; fill the space with pine nuts; dust all with flour; wrap in cheesecloth and plunge in a kettle of boiling water. Boil rapidly for five minutes; then simmer for two hours. Serve with caper cauce.
1½ pounds neck of mutton 1 tablespoon butter 1 tablespoon flour 1 chopped onion
1 carrot cut in dice
2 cups hot water
1 teaspoon salt ¼ teaspoon pepper Sprig of parsley 1 bay leaf 1 whole clove ½ can peas
Put butter in the frying pan; when melted, add flour and brown. Add carrot, onion and meat and cook until all are browned. Put in a kettle; add water, salt and pepper and the herbs, tied in a bouquet so that they can be removed. Cover and simmer for two hours, adding the peas ten minutes before serving and removing the herbs.
Neck of mutton
1 tablespoon butter or drippings
2 onions
6 parboiled potatoes
1 carrot
Salt and pepper
Cut the meat into pieces two inches square; brown in the butter; add water to cover the meat and the onions sliced. Cover closely and simmer two hours. Add more water if necessary, parboiled potatoes cut in half, a sliced carrot and seasoning. Cover and cook one hour longer; let the potatoes be soft but not broken. Thicken as desired.
A bay leaf cooked with the meat or a little Worcestershire sauce added to the gravy when finished improves the flavor
Broil some thick chops on one side and arrange them cooked side down, overlapping each other on the hot plank. Season with salt, pepper and butter. Cook for twenty minutes, basting frequently. Decorate with a border of mashed potatoes pressed through a bag and a star tube. Fill in with hot vegetables. Serve at once with brown sauce.
Broil the chops as usual and have green peas boiled. Heap the peas in the center of a round chop plate; decorate the chops with paper ruffles and arrange them symmetrically around the peas.
 
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