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Cannelon of Mutton

Posted in - Mrs C.S. Peel's Recipes & Recipes on September 27th 2013 0 Comments baked Cannelon carrots mutton stuffing

This mutton recipe is from the Eat Less Meat Book which was written in 1917 for WW1 rationing. It is a more frugal version of the Cannelon of Mutton which feature in My Own Cookery Book, 1923. I include the recipes for both below:

In the words of Granny Dot:

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Eat meat from happily reared animals, and then you have their permission to really enjoy what you eat. Seconded by my great great grandmother, Dorothy Peel, in her books 100 years ago: ‘To judge by a letter which has appeared in the daily press and from private conversations it would seem that many people think that to abstain from meat on one of two days a week and to limit their total consumption to 2 ½ lb. per head per week is a restriction which may seriously affect their health. To be quite frank, it may affect their greed, but it certainly will not adversely affect their health; indeed, there seems good reason to think that less meat-eating would improve the health of the well-to-do.’ Mrs C.S. Peel, The Eat Less Meat Book, 1917

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