Saint Patrick’s Day Leg of Lamb

Name: Saint Patrick’s Day Leg of Lamb
Ingredients: 1 leg of lamb; ½ cup crème de menthe; Salt; Cayenne pepper; 1 cup onions, chopped; 1 TBS. garlic, chopped; 2 TBS. Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce; 6 drops Peychaud’s bitters; 1 cup water; 1 TBS. flour; 1 turkey-size Reynolds cooking bag

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Justin Wilson Gourmet and Gourmand Cookbook

By Justin Wilson

Published 1984

About

Ingredients

1 leg of lamb
½ cup crème de menthe
Salt
Cayenne pepper

Main course

Method

Shake bag with flour in it. Rub salt and pepper into lamb. Then rub crème de menthe into lamb. Put lamb in bag. Pour the leftover crème de menthe over it. Put onions and garlic around it in the bag. Mix water, Lea & Perrins, and bitters. Then pour in the bag (NOT ON THE LAMB). Tie bag and punch 12 holes in it with a carving fork. Cook lamb 1 to 2 hours, depending on how big the leg is and h