Cotton Pie

On the third day, we thought to make was was left of the gigot of the previous post, that is to say reference 1, into a cotton pie, in honour of the name given it by our elder granddaughter. So fetch down the Spong No.1 from the roof and off we go.

Usual drill, minced meat, onion and carrot. Two ounces of red lentils by way of thickening. No flour. And not a salt, pepper, stock cube or anything else of that sort in sight. Maybe half a pint of water. Simmered gently for an hour or so, after which I hand over to BH for the finishing touches the following day.

All very satisfactory and we probably did three quarters of it at the first shift. With the result that the excess mince that she had kept back as the pie dish was full enough, went to make a second, smaller pie which, together with the left overs from the pie snapped above, did us for a fourth day. All quite economical really.

Plus there was the savoury bit from the end which escaped the mincer to be snacked one tea time. Not the same as the savoury bit from the end which used to cause squabbles with and among my siblings when I was a child, which I think must have come from further to the left of the animal's leg, as snapped above.

Bing offers all kinds of pictures of sheep's legs, both skeletal and meaty, but the left hand end above is much more like what we had when I was young, possibly a half leg taken from the thin end of this whole leg - eating big being rather frowned on in my family, possibly a relic of wartime & rationing frugality.

Allowing for the fact that sheep only have one lower leg bone, the tibia, with our fibula having been lost somewhere along the way, maybe what we had a few days ago was cut a couple of inches short of the heel end of the tibia, while what I used to have when young was cut more or less on the heel, as shown above. With the secondary bit below being heel operating tendon rather than bone. Maybe what would be the Achilles tendon in a human.

Reference 1: http://psmv4.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-gigot-for-valentine.html.