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Time: 3/4 hour.

Sufficient for 3 or 4 persons.

Seasonable from the end of May to August.
Ingredients
  1. About 1 lb. of underdone cold mutton
  2. 2 lettuces
  3. 1 pint of green peas
  4. 5 or 6 green onions
  5. 2 oz. of butter
  6. salt to taste
  7. pepper to taste
  8. 1/2 teacupful of water
Directions
  • Mince the mutton
  • Cut up the lettuces and onions in slices
  • Put these in a stewpan, with all the ingredients except the peas
  • Let these simmer very gently for 3/4 hour, keeping them well stirred
  • Boil the peas separately
  • Mix these with the mutton
  • Serve very hot
    • Source: The Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton (1859)
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