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Aromatic Lamb Recipe
Aromatic Lamb Ingredients:
1 Leg of lamb (about 4 lbs)
3 lb Potatoes (about 5 oz each)
1 Lemon (may be doubled)
Honey
Olive oil
Butter
Rosemary, thyme & oregano
Aromatic Lamb Preparation:
Put the leg of lamb into a large roasting pan. Bruise the leaves of
2 or 3 sprigs of rosemary and sprinkle them over the meat. Add plenty
of pepper and 1 tablespoon honey. Rub the mixture into the meat with
your hands. Then rub half a lemon over the joint, squeezing the juice
on to the meat as you do so. Do not add any salt. Leave to marinate
for 4 to 24 hours.
Peel and quarter the potatoes, then arrange them in a single layer
round the lamb. Squeeze lemon juice over the potatoes -- use at
least half a lemon, or up to one and a half lemons for a strong
citrus flavour. Carefully pour 1/4 pint water into a corner of the
roasting pan, then sprinkle over the potatoes and lamb about 2
tablespoons chopped fresh rosemary, at least 1 teaspoon each fresh
chopped thyme and oregano, and some salt and pepper. Drizzle on
1-1/2 teaspoons honey and 1 tablespoon olive oil, then dot with 1 oz
butter. Bake at 425 F (220 C) gas mark 6 for a further 1 to 1-1/4
hours. The ingredients will become gilded and will burnish to a rich
brown in places. Lift the meat and turn the potatoes occasionally,
and if necessary, add a little boiling water to the pan to prevent
drying out.
| "Cuisine is both an art and a science: it is an art when it strives to bring about the realization of the true and the beautiful, called le bon (the good) in the order of culinary ideas. As a science, it respects chemistry, physics and natural history. Its axioms are called aphorisms, its theorems recipes, and its philosophy gastronomy." | | Ginette Olivesi-Lorenzias |
| “This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food, but it supplies a food sufficiently abundant and sufficiently healthy for men who ask only to sustain themselves. The potato is criticised with reason for being windy, but what matters windiness for the vigorous organisims of peasants and labourers?” | | Denis Diderot (1713-1784) L'Encyclopedie (1751-1772) |
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