[Sca-cooks] Mutton

[Saint Phlip]

Cariadoc, the problem is that Americans barely tolerate the strong
flavor of lamb, and wouldn't tolerate  the intensity of true mutton,
so it basically isn't sold, except that most of what passes for lamb
nowadays would have been considered mutton a few years ago.

That said, if I wanted to find real mutton, there are two fairly easy
ways to do that. The first is to go to your local Farmers Market, and
ask around. There will usually be someone who raises sheep. The second
way to do that is to go to the local feed store, and ask them, and
they'll likely know someone who raises sheep.

I realize that you're in a civilized area of the world-
over-civilized, if I were to offer an opinion ;-), but I bet there
will be at least hobbyist farmers within about 50 miles of you, and
those two places would very likely help you find someone.

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 6:51 PM, David Friedman <ddfr at daviddfriedman.com> wrote:
> 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?
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