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Location (city or town)GreymouthEventMum always had a tin of Mutton fat under the kitchen sink.
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Date Created2nd October 2021CommentsRobyn Halkett
Hahhhh yes!!!!!
Robyn Halkett
Best roasts
Heather Newby
Robyn Halkett best ever
Donna Morrison
So did my dad and for his chip pot that he still has
Dan Brown
Still do it
Jan Page
Yes that's what my Mother did as well
Leonie Jennings
We used to put mutton fat on our sledges to come down the plantation up the back of Lyttelton.
Stephen Ryde
My mother had it to, then I carried it on and used it for many other areas as well, it was very useful.
Dorothy Wills
I used to keep a tin for excess fat for that purpose too but I never cleaned the coal range with it although we burnt wood rather than coal
Jenny McFadden
Mum used it to get tar off our feet.
Cathrine West
Jenny McFadden I had forgotten about that! My mum did, too!
Sherri Murphy
Made the best roast spuds
Lisa Molloy
Yes always, when I was living in Tonga a year or so I always had fat in a jar next to the stove, I carry on so many of the old great ways
Marie Ewens
Absolutely ...we a remember that
Elaine Bolitho
Ohyes!
Glenn Johnston
I still keep some in a tin in the fridge.
Kelly McGrath
What do you mean clean the coal range?
Bull Haussmann
Kelly McGrath thats how you clean the top of coal range and it worked as a protective coating and it always looked good that way yo
Heather Newby
Kelly McGrath put some mutton fat on newspaper and clean the black surface of the coal range.
Jeanine Bishop
You rub some on the top of the stove. I do with our woodburner make the top nice and black.
there was no such thing as cooking oil back then.
Anne Lambe
Got rid of those years ago. Plenty more fat in a good roast hogget.
Anthony Ware
Only the best
Craig Colville
Getting tar out of my hear
Graeme De Goldi
I use it for the stovetop on the boat.
Bronwen Skates
we were bought up on dripping fat from after a roast was cooked , stored in a cool place and when set loved the jelly on the bottom which we spread on bread , didnt hurt us and we certainly enjoyed the roasties done in hot fat cooked in coalrange . muc… See More
Valerie Beavis
I remember we use to have fat on our bread with salt and pepper,and it was yummy, probably because we were hungry and had nothing else to eat at the time ,I don’t know, to far back,those days for me now
Bobby Turner
Valerie Beavis
I'd starve first.
Maureen Tones
Valerie Beavis l remember having dripping with salt & pepper back in early 1940;s as butter was rachened
Roger O'Regan
Gosh, I remember that too. On bread, cleaning the coal range top (which cooked the most magnificent chops you could wish for) and of course the coal range roast dinners. What a great but simple life we enjoyed.
Mick Latta
Still use it (dripping) today for cooking roasts
Jakh Heremia
Mick Latta I would too - but it's bloody expensive.
Bronwen Skates
mick , we decided to change to dripping and have found it really enhances the taste of roasting veges , meat etc , not used everyday and now dont like taste of oils
Cathy Symons
O l can taste it now pork fat was the best on bread.
Marion Robina Hogarth
Didn't the roast vegetables taste absolutely delicious
Patricia Cornelius
My mother told me that as a child during World War 1 her and her brothers and sisters would eat dripping on toast.
Jo Devine Evans
This took me back to homemade chips on the coal range as a child. I now always take the fat off any homemade broth I make to use in cooking - yum, beats the taste of any processed cooking oils
Last time we were in Westport I asked what they use to c… See More
Dorothy Andrews
My Mum also!
Alva Mundy
My mother also cleaning coal range with fat on a cloth
Paul Leck
It helped kill my father he didnt make it to 60
Mary Kearney
That fat tin sat under the bench in a cupboard and not one of us got food poisoning .
Sandra Alborn
And mine
Harriet Lane
We used a black lead solution on ours
Elaine Rainey
Bronwen weren’t those roasts cooked in a coal range so nice Danica Thompson
Bet the stunk.
Heather Newby
Danica Thompson no.. it didnt.
Barbara Lyall
Mutton fat mostly likely
Margaret Grant
My mum to better than the stuff we use today..
Nova Hichens
Our Mum did to, no it didn’t stink & kept the coal range in exellent condition. Wish I could see that again.
Kevin Bell
Made the best Sunday roast and chips.
Maureen Shaw
Lard or fat on our bread, 4 ounces of butter a week each, During after the war. Tea sugar Etc all rationed. Wish I still had the ration books.
Aarron Poulton
Yip my mum was the same with left over fat, and the old pounds of dripping
Ted McCreath
A plate of porridge, two slices of dripping bread (yum) and a mug of thick cocoa. Standard fare for breakfast for us in my years in an orphanage back in the early 1940's.
Lynn-marie Thompson
Mine too.
Wayne Smith
Also used for greasing the sled runner's
Colin Aldridge
good for work boots to.
Sue McCallum
I mix mutton fat with Stockholm tar and neatsfoot oil for the horses feet brilliant got that old fashioned receipe from Tom and Sandra Rooney way back in the day and still make it .
Marg Iacoppi
And as my mum didn’t have much sense of smell I had to keep telling her the fat stunk, and suggesting that she start a fresh batch.
Judith May
And rub a little on pan to do picklets ---- omg -- just the best ever !!!!!!
Sandra Rooney
We used dripping at the Steak Bar.
Sandra Rooney
Yes Sue with a little
Sandra Rooney
Keith Douthett
Your Mum too?!
Kelly Williams
So did mine...gross,the chip pot
Margaret Soper
My mum too we had bread and dripping well salted after school yum
Patricia Stephens
Margaret Soper we use do fry bread was yummy lol
Elaine Matthews
Save mine and use them all the time. Makes the best scones ever. Yum.
Cecile Murphy
Do you remember how good the Sunday roast tasted when it came out of the coal range oven - I do
Wayne Smith
What about dripping and 100 and 1000 sandwiches
Raylene Cathcart
Fried white bread OMG it was nice...
Dianne Broome
I still cook with dripping
Patricia Stephens
I use to watch my Mum Dad melt down fat for cooking from mutton fat.
Vern Pattinson
Us as well in the fridge
David Howe
Tallow, ( fat ) was used to clean steam locomotive boilers too. And our roasting mutton fat was also kept under the sink.
=
John Paget
I hope she used the stove cleaner last.
Ian Miller
Dad used to collect the fat and then make soap in a kerosine tin on a fire in the back garden. The soap was for washing in a copper. Things were a bit different back then
Amiee Manawatu
Bring back mutton!
Mark Humphreys
Always cheaper than pork or beef and chicken. Love corned mutton shoulder and mutton ham
Evelyn Nevard
Cooked very slowly lovely
Sheryl Iraia
I like mutton and love
hogget better than lamb.
Denise Frayle
That was the only roast meat mum could afford. Mutton chop stew was delicious!
Averil Thorpe
What I wouldn't give for a leg of mutton. Nowadays it's baby lamb. I don't like the taste of lamb it's so bland
David Brown
I wonder why you cannot buy mutton or hogget in supermarkets these days?
Sandy Brears
Give me two tooth hogget over the lamb any day, way more flavour
Lynne Donoghue
You don't see Mutton or Hogget anymore just Lamb.
Graham Howard
It was pretty good on yesterday's cold porridge sliced with pepper and salt.
Lesley Parker Butland
You never hogget now
Trish Barry Andrews
almost taste it!! Baz.
Shona McLaren
I grew up on a farm. Mutton was our staple food, had lamb at Christmas, wasn’t keen on that.
Peter Gray
Remember Mutton Hams at Xmas
John Walker
In the 1960's my father graded a long driveway to a farm property. No money changed hands. A few days later when we came home from school there were 3 dressed mutton ewes lying across the concrete tubs in the laundry. (No locked doors those days). Dad went to town and bought our first deep freeze. Spent the weekend cuting legs, shoulders, chops etc. Scrap cuttings went to local butcher who made the most wonderful sausages.
Elizabeth Watson
ah mutton, just a fond memory now
Colin Skates
And the blokes used to rub mutton fat into the leather of their boots for protection of leather well before the likes of Dubbin was available
Jo Evans
An entire side of mutton was $20 in the 80s
Nicki Killner
I remember this. Was still cooking it in the 90s. Slow cooked with caper sauce. Yummmm
Jason WA
Been over 20 years since I saw that
Linda Hawken
Especially when it was your own farm-grown.
Marie Ewens
Didn't we all !
John Paget
I would of starved to death if it were not for mutton. I used to collect a half a mutton from the butcher every Friday. Those sheep were huge with rib bones like hockey sticks.
Leeanne Mahuika
The days when you cld get a beast killed for meat for the Winter.Thr was no super markets them days everyone Had there own Vegi gardens to go with the Traditional Family Sunday Roast
Lyn Baker-Anisy
Prefer mutton any day
Greg Chilton-Smith
We had mutton fore-quarter for dinner tonight
Sandwiches for lunch tomorrow
Tania Tones Lawrence
We grow our own but grow out to hogget. Pork and beef too. We're lucky to be able to.
Jeff Mills
They promote eating lamb as it’s a quick turnover for the farmers. I was brought up on mutton and still prefer it. The flavour is the best. I have to keep my own sheep and age them like fine wine.
Donna Grace Fata
Martin Kahui
Used to get whole legs of mutton ham in Ashburton for $9
Tony Warner
Mutton sandwiches with gravy as butter and a touch of salt
“DELICIOUS “
Joan Adams
Used to buy a leg of mutton, boil it with lots of vegetables and have it for dinner with white sauce,then have it cold with salad and there was usually enough for a couple of school lunches
Joy Meyer
Reminds me of my child hood. We grew up on a farm. Dad would kill a sheep or a beast and cut alot of the fat from it. Mum would render it down and put it in a tin.
Dis Turbed
Shepherds pie
Lee Henderson
MMM Side lamb $5 1982. Wage was $180 wk. Very basic State house $70k. House contents very expensive and lasted your lifetime. We didnt have malls to waste $ and build up the dumps. No restaurants or coffee shops. Just a 4 square, petrol workshop, fish n chip & burgers, bakery. We saved hard for a house and had 3-4 jobs 7 days 7 nites. No Govt handouts or nanny state. Everyone had to work 2 survive. It was the norm to work long hours. Then migration came, higher taxes and NZ changed to consumerism, bigger dumps. Our simple life with NZ MADE changed to China.
Billie Jo Mayer
Fresh home kill no fake preservatives in our day no tapioca filled chickens like tegel do. All real meat cooked on a coal range yummy
Mark Thomson
And the option of mutton ham at Christmas
Zane Haddon
Yeh mutton is way more flavourful grew up on that not lamb an now it all gets shipped over seas use to buy them whole all the time
Doris Blanchard
Animal fat made the best roast dinners.
Colin Harman
Can remember getting the fat from around the Kidney and melting that down and save it for cooking in
Leslie Fischer
So did my Mother. An awesome cook.
Elaine Mcgill
I used to buy mutton shoulders $3.99 in 1987 Put on slow at 1.30. Nice roast tea. Cold meat Monday night an few meat Sammie fir school lunches.
Elaine Mcgill
I still do
Gaye Waide
Hogget much nicer than lamb
Kelly Calder
I have only just tried at xmas and heard about mutton ham.
Debbie Anne Stikkelman
Mum cooked it slow really yummy
Marilyn Hopkins
Mmmm I'll cook the leg I have tomorrow yum love cold mutton
David Brown
I wonder why you cannot buy mutton or hogget in supermarkets these days?
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Graham Howard
David Brown they don't grow sheep for wool anymore, mutton back in our day was weather mutton a castrated sheep that was kept for wool until their mouths went and they were butchered, usually 5-7 years old. Today sheep are bred for export lamb carcasses and the ewes when they go dry are butchered and sent to the middle east, sometimes they go there alive and that's another story.
4h
Reply
Greg Chilton-Smith
We had mutton fore-quarter for dinner tonight
Sandwiches for lunch tomorrow
Susan Smalley
4 tooth merino wether from the high county was my favorite ( if one can really get picky)
Susan Smalley
Once it was the only red meat affordable, other then mince and those two were considered to be poor peoples meat, back in the day.
Jeanette Smith
Meat had flavour in those days….
Giovanna Tones
We can get mutton over in the uk but it is hard to find. We can only get it from on place. Going to have mutton for my Easter Sunday lunch.
Colin Skates
And the blokes used to rub mutton fat into the leather of their boots for protection of leather well before the likes of Dubbin was available
Jo Evans
An entire side of mutton was $20 in the 80s
Helen Bollinger
Ahh...slow cooked with garlic and rosemary...
Sheryl Iraia
I like mutton and love
hogget better than lamb.
Jeanette Corkran
We worked on a sheep station in North Canterbury for a few years, always siad when I leave I'll never eat it again, didn't take long befour I missed it sooo tasty, got to say Aussie lamb not the same and you can't get mutton or hogget
Bronwyn Grant
I have mutton ! It’s the best
Hahhhh yes!!!!!
Robyn Halkett
Best roasts
Heather Newby
Robyn Halkett best ever
Donna Morrison
So did my dad and for his chip pot that he still has
Dan Brown
Still do it
Jan Page
Yes that's what my Mother did as well
Leonie Jennings
We used to put mutton fat on our sledges to come down the plantation up the back of Lyttelton.
Stephen Ryde
My mother had it to, then I carried it on and used it for many other areas as well, it was very useful.
Dorothy Wills
I used to keep a tin for excess fat for that purpose too but I never cleaned the coal range with it although we burnt wood rather than coal
Jenny McFadden
Mum used it to get tar off our feet.
Cathrine West
Jenny McFadden I had forgotten about that! My mum did, too!
Sherri Murphy
Made the best roast spuds
Lisa Molloy
Yes always, when I was living in Tonga a year or so I always had fat in a jar next to the stove, I carry on so many of the old great ways
Marie Ewens
Absolutely ...we a remember that
Elaine Bolitho
Ohyes!
Glenn Johnston
I still keep some in a tin in the fridge.
Kelly McGrath
What do you mean clean the coal range?
Bull Haussmann
Kelly McGrath thats how you clean the top of coal range and it worked as a protective coating and it always looked good that way yo
Heather Newby
Kelly McGrath put some mutton fat on newspaper and clean the black surface of the coal range.
Jeanine Bishop
You rub some on the top of the stove. I do with our woodburner make the top nice and black.
there was no such thing as cooking oil back then.
Anne Lambe
Got rid of those years ago. Plenty more fat in a good roast hogget.
Anthony Ware
Only the best
Craig Colville
Getting tar out of my hear
Graeme De Goldi
I use it for the stovetop on the boat.
Bronwen Skates
we were bought up on dripping fat from after a roast was cooked , stored in a cool place and when set loved the jelly on the bottom which we spread on bread , didnt hurt us and we certainly enjoyed the roasties done in hot fat cooked in coalrange . muc… See More
Valerie Beavis
I remember we use to have fat on our bread with salt and pepper,and it was yummy, probably because we were hungry and had nothing else to eat at the time ,I don’t know, to far back,those days for me now
Bobby Turner
Valerie Beavis
I'd starve first.
Maureen Tones
Valerie Beavis l remember having dripping with salt & pepper back in early 1940;s as butter was rachened
Roger O'Regan
Gosh, I remember that too. On bread, cleaning the coal range top (which cooked the most magnificent chops you could wish for) and of course the coal range roast dinners. What a great but simple life we enjoyed.
Mick Latta
Still use it (dripping) today for cooking roasts
Jakh Heremia
Mick Latta I would too - but it's bloody expensive.
Bronwen Skates
mick , we decided to change to dripping and have found it really enhances the taste of roasting veges , meat etc , not used everyday and now dont like taste of oils
Cathy Symons
O l can taste it now pork fat was the best on bread.
Marion Robina Hogarth
Didn't the roast vegetables taste absolutely delicious
Patricia Cornelius
My mother told me that as a child during World War 1 her and her brothers and sisters would eat dripping on toast.
Jo Devine Evans
This took me back to homemade chips on the coal range as a child. I now always take the fat off any homemade broth I make to use in cooking - yum, beats the taste of any processed cooking oils
Last time we were in Westport I asked what they use to c… See More
Dorothy Andrews
My Mum also!
Alva Mundy
My mother also cleaning coal range with fat on a cloth
Paul Leck
It helped kill my father he didnt make it to 60
Mary Kearney
That fat tin sat under the bench in a cupboard and not one of us got food poisoning .
Sandra Alborn
And mine
Harriet Lane
We used a black lead solution on ours
Elaine Rainey
Bronwen weren’t those roasts cooked in a coal range so nice Danica Thompson
Bet the stunk.
Heather Newby
Danica Thompson no.. it didnt.
Barbara Lyall
Mutton fat mostly likely
Margaret Grant
My mum to better than the stuff we use today..
Nova Hichens
Our Mum did to, no it didn’t stink & kept the coal range in exellent condition. Wish I could see that again.
Kevin Bell
Made the best Sunday roast and chips.
Maureen Shaw
Lard or fat on our bread, 4 ounces of butter a week each, During after the war. Tea sugar Etc all rationed. Wish I still had the ration books.
Aarron Poulton
Yip my mum was the same with left over fat, and the old pounds of dripping
Ted McCreath
A plate of porridge, two slices of dripping bread (yum) and a mug of thick cocoa. Standard fare for breakfast for us in my years in an orphanage back in the early 1940's.
Lynn-marie Thompson
Mine too.
Wayne Smith
Also used for greasing the sled runner's
Colin Aldridge
good for work boots to.
Sue McCallum
I mix mutton fat with Stockholm tar and neatsfoot oil for the horses feet brilliant got that old fashioned receipe from Tom and Sandra Rooney way back in the day and still make it .
Marg Iacoppi
And as my mum didn’t have much sense of smell I had to keep telling her the fat stunk, and suggesting that she start a fresh batch.
Judith May
And rub a little on pan to do picklets ---- omg -- just the best ever !!!!!!
Sandra Rooney
We used dripping at the Steak Bar.
Sandra Rooney
Yes Sue with a little
Sandra Rooney
Keith Douthett
Your Mum too?!
Kelly Williams
So did mine...gross,the chip pot
Margaret Soper
My mum too we had bread and dripping well salted after school yum
Patricia Stephens
Margaret Soper we use do fry bread was yummy lol
Elaine Matthews
Save mine and use them all the time. Makes the best scones ever. Yum.
Cecile Murphy
Do you remember how good the Sunday roast tasted when it came out of the coal range oven - I do
Wayne Smith
What about dripping and 100 and 1000 sandwiches
Raylene Cathcart
Fried white bread OMG it was nice...
Dianne Broome
I still cook with dripping
Patricia Stephens
I use to watch my Mum Dad melt down fat for cooking from mutton fat.
Vern Pattinson
Us as well in the fridge
David Howe
Tallow, ( fat ) was used to clean steam locomotive boilers too. And our roasting mutton fat was also kept under the sink.
=
John Paget
I hope she used the stove cleaner last.
Ian Miller
Dad used to collect the fat and then make soap in a kerosine tin on a fire in the back garden. The soap was for washing in a copper. Things were a bit different back then
Amiee Manawatu
Bring back mutton!
Mark Humphreys
Always cheaper than pork or beef and chicken. Love corned mutton shoulder and mutton ham
Evelyn Nevard
Cooked very slowly lovely
Sheryl Iraia
I like mutton and love
hogget better than lamb.
Denise Frayle
That was the only roast meat mum could afford. Mutton chop stew was delicious!
Averil Thorpe
What I wouldn't give for a leg of mutton. Nowadays it's baby lamb. I don't like the taste of lamb it's so bland
David Brown
I wonder why you cannot buy mutton or hogget in supermarkets these days?
Sandy Brears
Give me two tooth hogget over the lamb any day, way more flavour
Lynne Donoghue
You don't see Mutton or Hogget anymore just Lamb.
Graham Howard
It was pretty good on yesterday's cold porridge sliced with pepper and salt.
Lesley Parker Butland
You never hogget now
Trish Barry Andrews
almost taste it!! Baz.
Shona McLaren
I grew up on a farm. Mutton was our staple food, had lamb at Christmas, wasn’t keen on that.
Peter Gray
Remember Mutton Hams at Xmas
John Walker
In the 1960's my father graded a long driveway to a farm property. No money changed hands. A few days later when we came home from school there were 3 dressed mutton ewes lying across the concrete tubs in the laundry. (No locked doors those days). Dad went to town and bought our first deep freeze. Spent the weekend cuting legs, shoulders, chops etc. Scrap cuttings went to local butcher who made the most wonderful sausages.
Elizabeth Watson
ah mutton, just a fond memory now
Colin Skates
And the blokes used to rub mutton fat into the leather of their boots for protection of leather well before the likes of Dubbin was available
Jo Evans
An entire side of mutton was $20 in the 80s
Nicki Killner
I remember this. Was still cooking it in the 90s. Slow cooked with caper sauce. Yummmm
Jason WA
Been over 20 years since I saw that
Linda Hawken
Especially when it was your own farm-grown.
Marie Ewens
Didn't we all !
John Paget
I would of starved to death if it were not for mutton. I used to collect a half a mutton from the butcher every Friday. Those sheep were huge with rib bones like hockey sticks.
Leeanne Mahuika
The days when you cld get a beast killed for meat for the Winter.Thr was no super markets them days everyone Had there own Vegi gardens to go with the Traditional Family Sunday Roast
Lyn Baker-Anisy
Prefer mutton any day
Greg Chilton-Smith
We had mutton fore-quarter for dinner tonight
Sandwiches for lunch tomorrow
Tania Tones Lawrence
We grow our own but grow out to hogget. Pork and beef too. We're lucky to be able to.
Jeff Mills
They promote eating lamb as it’s a quick turnover for the farmers. I was brought up on mutton and still prefer it. The flavour is the best. I have to keep my own sheep and age them like fine wine.
Donna Grace Fata
Martin Kahui
Used to get whole legs of mutton ham in Ashburton for $9
Tony Warner
Mutton sandwiches with gravy as butter and a touch of salt
“DELICIOUS “
Joan Adams
Used to buy a leg of mutton, boil it with lots of vegetables and have it for dinner with white sauce,then have it cold with salad and there was usually enough for a couple of school lunches
Joy Meyer
Reminds me of my child hood. We grew up on a farm. Dad would kill a sheep or a beast and cut alot of the fat from it. Mum would render it down and put it in a tin.
Dis Turbed
Shepherds pie
Lee Henderson
MMM Side lamb $5 1982. Wage was $180 wk. Very basic State house $70k. House contents very expensive and lasted your lifetime. We didnt have malls to waste $ and build up the dumps. No restaurants or coffee shops. Just a 4 square, petrol workshop, fish n chip & burgers, bakery. We saved hard for a house and had 3-4 jobs 7 days 7 nites. No Govt handouts or nanny state. Everyone had to work 2 survive. It was the norm to work long hours. Then migration came, higher taxes and NZ changed to consumerism, bigger dumps. Our simple life with NZ MADE changed to China.
Billie Jo Mayer
Fresh home kill no fake preservatives in our day no tapioca filled chickens like tegel do. All real meat cooked on a coal range yummy
Mark Thomson
And the option of mutton ham at Christmas
Zane Haddon
Yeh mutton is way more flavourful grew up on that not lamb an now it all gets shipped over seas use to buy them whole all the time
Doris Blanchard
Animal fat made the best roast dinners.
Colin Harman
Can remember getting the fat from around the Kidney and melting that down and save it for cooking in
Leslie Fischer
So did my Mother. An awesome cook.
Elaine Mcgill
I used to buy mutton shoulders $3.99 in 1987 Put on slow at 1.30. Nice roast tea. Cold meat Monday night an few meat Sammie fir school lunches.
Elaine Mcgill
I still do
Gaye Waide
Hogget much nicer than lamb
Kelly Calder
I have only just tried at xmas and heard about mutton ham.
Debbie Anne Stikkelman
Mum cooked it slow really yummy
Marilyn Hopkins
Mmmm I'll cook the leg I have tomorrow yum love cold mutton
David Brown
I wonder why you cannot buy mutton or hogget in supermarkets these days?
1d
Reply
Graham Howard
David Brown they don't grow sheep for wool anymore, mutton back in our day was weather mutton a castrated sheep that was kept for wool until their mouths went and they were butchered, usually 5-7 years old. Today sheep are bred for export lamb carcasses and the ewes when they go dry are butchered and sent to the middle east, sometimes they go there alive and that's another story.
4h
Reply
Greg Chilton-Smith
We had mutton fore-quarter for dinner tonight
Sandwiches for lunch tomorrow
Susan Smalley
4 tooth merino wether from the high county was my favorite ( if one can really get picky)
Susan Smalley
Once it was the only red meat affordable, other then mince and those two were considered to be poor peoples meat, back in the day.
Jeanette Smith
Meat had flavour in those days….
Giovanna Tones
We can get mutton over in the uk but it is hard to find. We can only get it from on place. Going to have mutton for my Easter Sunday lunch.
Colin Skates
And the blokes used to rub mutton fat into the leather of their boots for protection of leather well before the likes of Dubbin was available
Jo Evans
An entire side of mutton was $20 in the 80s
Helen Bollinger
Ahh...slow cooked with garlic and rosemary...
Sheryl Iraia
I like mutton and love
hogget better than lamb.
Jeanette Corkran
We worked on a sheep station in North Canterbury for a few years, always siad when I leave I'll never eat it again, didn't take long befour I missed it sooo tasty, got to say Aussie lamb not the same and you can't get mutton or hogget
Bronwyn Grant
I have mutton ! It’s the best
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