To Cassandra, from Steventon, "Mr. Lyford gratified us very much yesterday by his praises of my father's mutton, which they all think the finest that was ever ate." - Jane Austen, Saturday 1-Sunday 2 December 1798
What kind of meat is mutton anyway? Jane Austen has mentioned mutton a few times just so far in her letters... Okay, Wikipedia tells me that mutton is the meat of adult sheep. I am not an adventurous cook, so if it is not poultry, beef, pork, or fish I am not familiar with it.
It seems this sentence was started earlier in this same letter, Letter 13, Post 3,
http://allthings-jane-austen.blogspot.com/2012/10/letter-13-post-3.html
in which Jane Austen wrote, "Mr Lyford was here yesterday; he came while we were at dinner, and partook of our elegant entertainment. I was not ashamed at asking him to sit down to table, for we had some pease-soup, a sparerib, and a pudding." It must have been a mutton sparerib. Some information about Mr. Lyford, the surgeon from Basingstoke attending Mrs. Austen, is on this post also.
Terrie
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