[Sca-cooks] Mutton

[David Friedman]

I thought I remembered a discussion here recently on mutton and where 
to find it, but I'm not finding the messages so perhaps it was 
somewhere else.

One suggestion was halal butchers. We have at least one recipe that 
specifies mutton, for which we've used lamb, and I wanted to see how 
much difference it would make so I looked up local halal butchers. 
Yesterday I picked up two pounds of meat (including the bones--I got 
about 1 1/4lb of meat out of it) at about $8/lb, which struck me as 
expensive. When we made the dish, we didn't notice any change in 
taste at all, which set me wondering whether the mutton was really 
mutton.

Today I stopped at a different halal butcher, after calling to check 
that they did have mutton (sheep not goat? yes. Leg? yes.). After a 
brief conversation it became clear that what they meant by "mutton" 
was lamb. I was told that they could special order meat from an adult 
sheep, it would cost less, but I would have to be ordering a lot of 
it.

Anyone else had better luck finding mutton?
-- 
David/Cariadoc
www.daviddfriedman.com