Mint sauce

epicuric

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rascal, you and I share a love of lamb, but I reckon you eat more mint sauce than the rest of us put together. Could you possibly share your recipe please? My wife was making some earlier, trying to emulate a recipe from childhood memories, chopped mint scalded with boiling water, malt vinegar and salt added. We weren't sure about adding sugar - a vague memory. Would appreciate your thoughts.
 
epicuric said:
rascal, you and I share a love of lamb, but I reckon you eat more mint sauce than the rest of us put together. Could you possibly share your recipe please? My wife was making some earlier, trying to emulate a recipe from childhood memories, chopped mint scalded with boiling water, malt vinegar and salt added. We weren't sure about adding sugar - a vague memory. Would appreciate your thoughts.
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I have never been a fan of mint sauce with lamb. Not to say that I do not enjoy using fresh mint in the seasoning rub. I think it is a childhood thing. I remember one time when Mother cooked lamb. She and Dad were hosting dinner party for friends. Mom fed us - the children early and sent us to our rooms with instructions to not interrupt her dinner party. We had sandwiches -not lamb. I think the guest were important for Dad's career. Not people we knew. I am the eldest of 7 children. After the guest left I showed up in the kitchen to help Mom clean up. I tasted the lamb - it was cooked well done and the mint was jarred mint jelly. It was decades before I tried lamb again. I am still not a fan of mint with lamb.
 
epicuric said:
rascal, you and I share a love of lamb, but I reckon you eat more mint sauce than the rest of us put together. Could you possibly share your recipe please? My wife was making some earlier, trying to emulate a recipe from childhood memories, chopped mint scalded with boiling water, malt vinegar and salt added. We weren't sure about adding sugar - a vague memory. Would appreciate your thoughts.
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Recipe - Rascal's Mint sauce

I make about 3 or 4 times a year.

Yes I love it.
The smell cooking it fills the house.

Russ
 
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ElizabethB said:
I have never been a fan of mint sauce with lamb. Not to say that I do not enjoy using fresh mint in the seasoning rub. I think it is a childhood thing. I remember one time when Mother cooked lamb. She and Dad were hosting dinner party for friends. Mom fed us - the children early and sent us to our rooms with instructions to not interrupt her dinner party. We had sandwiches -not lamb. I think the guest were important for Dad's career. Not people we knew. I am the eldest of 7 children. After the guest left I showed up in the kitchen to help Mom clean up. I tasted the lamb - it was cooked well done and the mint was jarred mint jelly. It was decades before I tried lamb again. I am still not a fan of mint with lamb.
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Mint jelly is not the same, and is way too sweet to serve with lamb. Mint sauce is vinegar based, so the sharpness cuts through the richness of the lamb.
 
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