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Mutton, Leg of, with Potatoes

This homely mode of cooking a leg of mutton is not to be set aside because of its simplicity. If baked carefully, and cooked to the right point as it ought to be, a feat not always accomplished when baked at the common oven, it will be found excellent, particularly the potatoes, as they will have absorbed all the dripping of the joint, and, where economy in the use of meat as a family dinner is concerned, the potatoes will satisfy the appetite, especially of children, without encroaching largely on the joint. Everybody will allow that the odour of the working man's Sunday dinner is most tempting to the appetite; but, barring the question of fire, we do not think it the most economical of dishes. Time, a quarter of an hour to the pound. Probable cost, 1s. per pound. Sufficient, a leg of mutton of moderate size for eight or more persons.