This section is from the "The National Cook Book" book, by Marion Harland And Christine Terhune Herrick. Also available from Amazon: National Cook Book
Trim off the skin and fat and scrape the bone bare for an inch and a half or two inches from the end, making, as it were a handle for the edible part of the chop. Flatten with the potato-beetle or the broad side of a hatchet, and broil quickly upon a greased gridiron, turning several times.
Pepper and salt and send in upon a hot dish, the chops overlapping one another neatly.
Or, you may ring the chops about a mound of green pease or mashed potatoes, circling all with parsley on nasturtiums.
A showy dish of chops is made by twisting frills of fringed white paper about the bare bone left at the end of each.
 
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