This section is from the book "The Table: How To Buy Food, How to Cook It, and How to Serve It", by Alessandro Filippini. Also available from Amazon: The Table: How To Buy Food, How To Cook It And How To Serve It.
Take a raw leg of lamb weighing about three pounds; remove the bone and pare off the skin. Then cut into six square pieces of equal size. Put them in a vessel with two very finely chopped shallots, one teaspoonful of chopped chives, one teaspoon-ful of parsley, and a crushed clove of garlic. Add the juice of half a lemon, a tablespoonful of salt, a teaspoonful of pepper, and half a tea-spoonful of nutmeg. Let them steep for about two hours, stirring at times; then take the pieces out, run a skewer through the centre of the six pieces, interlarding them with pieces of salt pork; dip them in bread-crumbs and broil for four minutes on each side. Serve with half a pint of hot Colbert sauce (No. 190), poured on the serving-dish, and place the brochettes over, arranging them nicely.
 
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