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Roast mutton—with a twist

5 June, 2009 by Stonehead 5 Comments

Smooth Hound, on the Neeps forum, asked for advice on roasting a lamb joint. I suggested he try substituting lamb for mutton in this recipe. Melt a knob of butter, about 50-60g, in a heavy iron frying pan over a high heat. As the butter melts, add a couple of tablespoons of olive oil to […]

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Let’s have pie…

19 September, 2008 by Stonehead 7 Comments

The boys and I decided we fancied pie for dinner but couldn’t find a recipe that worked with our available ingredients—minced lamb, potatoes, pickled carrots and onions. After a bit of thinking and scribbling down a few ideas, I decided to make a meat-and-potato pie with shortcrust pastry.

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Recipes for lamb

6 January, 2008 by Stonehead 3 Comments

Esther, a Shetlander who posts on Selfsufficientish, was given some Shetland hill lamb to pop in her freezer, but didn’t know how to cook many of the cuts. I started off by telling her my recipe for steamed lamb, but soon found dozens of recipes for lamb and mutton (or even goat) popping into my […]

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Frugal Living, Sustainable Living & Self Sufficiency, Lamb, Meat, Recipes, Simple living

Lambs to the slaughter

28 February, 2006 by Stonehead 0 Comments

I was up at 4.30am to take two lambs to the abbatoir in Elgin but a glance out the window quickly changed my mind. It was snowing hard with a couple of inches of snow lying on the ground and minimal visibility, so I didn’t need much persuasion to convince me to wait until daylight […]

Crofting, Farming & Smallholding

Abattoir, Berkshire pigs, Defender, Environment, Frugal Living, Sustainable Living & Self Sufficiency, Lamb, Land Rovers, Livestock, Scots Greys, Sheep, Slaughter, snow, Water, winter

First lamb for the freezer

1 October, 2005 by Stonehead 0 Comments

We’re picking our first lamb for the freezer today. We loaned our big field to George, the farmer across the road, for summer grazing for his sheep. In return, we got the use of his cousin’s front-end loader for moving our chicken house and our pick of George’s lambs.

Crofting, Farming & Smallholding

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