Prince Charles IS the revival of mutton.

Before a lot of comments start about mutton I would like to invite the entire brojudd family down to Kentucky for the International Barbeque Festival in Owensboro. Held every May (one week after the Derby)it attracts thousands who dine on BBQ mutton, pork, chicken, and burgoo.

Don't knock mutton until you've tried ours.

Addenda:

This, of course, would require oj to travel to a different time zone...

Mutton is swell.

By the way, where is Fearless Leader? No posts at all today, fort is being held down (ably, I might add) by the four tireless sidekicks. Did he get on the wrong train or something?

Presumably he's dusting The Wife's shoe collection, which based on what he's written would be an all day effort.

Joe:

The Fearless Leader is a great father and might be spotted for the next few days on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.

He's also a kid at heart. The chronological kids provide an irrefutable excuse for his own excellent adventure.

The Fearless Leader is a great father and might be spotted for the next few days on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.

In other words, tossing his kids over the fence at Disney World and heading to the nearest sports bar.

By the way, shouldn't the title of this post be "Empty Hangs the Head that Might Someday Wear the Crown"?

promoting mutton is one thing, marrying it is another. anyway, who eats mutton when lamb is so succulent.

In other words Brokeback Mountain isn't the only place "where men are men and the sheep are nervous."

As for Time Zone Boy, I thought he might have gone to Detroit to see his Red Sox play in the Stanley Cup this Sunday. We all know how much he loves soccer, after all.

oj,
And where's the recipe for a tasty mutton dish? Would sure seem to be the opportune time!
Mike
BTW,
These are all Brit recipes so some interpretative capabilities are assumed.

Braised Leg of Mutton
Order a leg of mutton boned. Wipe, stuff, sew, and place in deep pan. Cook five minutes in one-fourth cup butter, a slice each of onion, carrot, and turnip cut in dice, one-half bay leaf, and a sprig each of thyme and parsley. Add three cups hot water, one and one-half teaspoons salt, and twelve peppercorns; pour over mutton. Cover closely, and cook slowly three hours, uncovering for the last half-hour. Remove from pan to hot platter. Brown three tablespoons butter, add four tablespoons flour, and stir until well browned; then pour on slowly the strained liquor; there should be one and three-fourths cups.
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Stuffing
1 cup cracker crumbs 1/8 teaspoon pepper
1/4 cup melted butter 1/2 tablespoon Poultry Seasoning
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup boiling water

For more:
http://www.graigfarm.co.uk/RecipeMutton.htm

Maybe this to ensure a ready supply of meat for the British Muslim community.

Mutton Jeff

Won't Charles be King of Canada too?

Only if his mom let's him.

Funny, he wants to be a mutton Renaissance man, but isn't he the Prince of Whales? He does blubber.

Here is one sure to please even you, toe...

Place a mutton forequarter on the barbecue pit raw over hot hickory logs (the meat should be about one foot above the wood in the pit) and cook on one side 8 hours, then dip in a brown vinegar sauce (this includes Worcestershire Sauce, lemon pepper, and garlic powder), turn and cook another 6 hours or so, depending upon the temperature of the coals (hopefully between 220 and 240 degrees F).

Or log onto http://www.bbqfest.com/ and plan your vacation for this Spring.

What's mutton?

erp:

Mutton is sheep. Thanks to the tariff of 1816, wool production in the then Western United States (which extended only to the Miss. River)became profitable and suddenly people found themselves with a lot of sheep on their hands.

When the sheep aged to the point that they no longer produced good wool, they were barbequed low and slow over a wood fire...

I could go on but it's making me hungry.

I get it. Mutton is the opposite of a spring lamb, also very good eating.

Mutton is great, if well prepared. Mutton from ewes that is, and no more than 4 years old. In fact I prefer it, medium rare. MMM! With fava beans and a good bottle of chianti at least 6 years old.

I did my part by eating a gyro this week.

Genecis is correct. 2,3, or 4 year old ewes are what we use here in Owensboro,KY

I don't know. We tried mutton about 30 years ago and didn't care for it. It turned out so greasey as to be slippery.

I had thought that perhaps I had done a bad job of cooking it, and perhaps there was some sort of trick to get the oil out of it, like roasting a duck or something. Looking at the recipes above and at UK and Australian sites, I am not so sure that the mutton cooked British style wouldn't turn out the same way as before.

Ever the adventurer when it comes to cooking, I am ready to try it again. Bartman's barbecue route has a lot of promise.

An historical sidenote: Lizzie Borden supposedly ate cold mutton soup for breakfast the morning she killed her parents.

Perhaps she is a formative influence on Charles.

Joe:

Lizzie was found not guilty I believe.

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