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 shoulder of lamb of about three pounds, season with one pinch of salt and one pinch of pepper, and tie it up well. Place in a saucepan with one sliced onion, and one sliced carrot, and brown for six minutes. Moisten with one pint of broth (No. 99), and a pint of Espagnole sauce (No. 151). Let cook for forty-five minutes. Skim all the fat from the gravy, and remove the shoulder to a hot dish and untie it. Garnish the dish with three stuffed egg-plants (No. 909), and half a pint of cooked gumbo (No. 1030). Strain the gravy over the shoulder, and serve.
 
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