This section is from the book "The Table: How To Buy Food, How to Cook It, and How to Serve It", by Alessandro Filippini. Also available from Amazon: The Table: How To Buy Food, How To Cook It And How To Serve It.
Bone a shoulder of spring lamb weighing about two and a half pounds. Let the end bone remain for a handle. Season with half a tablespoonful of salt, and the same quantity of pepper. Sew it up with a needle, fasten it firmly, and boil two or three minutes in the stock-pot. After letting it cool, lard the top with a larding needle as for a fricandeau, and place it in a saucepan with a piece of lard-skin, a carrot and an onion cut in slices. Brown slightly for six minutes; then moisten with a pint of broth (No. 99) and half a pint of Espagnole sauce (No. 157); cook in the oven forty-five minutes, take it out, and strain the sauce over a pint of hot, boiled, green peas (No. 97S). Cook two minutes longer. Place the garnishing on a hot dish; remove the strings of the ballotin; lay it on the top of the garnishing, and serve.
 
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