Chicken and Mutton

This is an old north of England dish. You can leave out the mutton if you don’t have access to it, but I do recommend that you use it. I have seen versions where tomatoes are included, but I’m not going to put them in because it isn’t historically correct, as tomatoes didn’t come into common use until the twentieth century. The recipe really calls for a boiling fowl or a cockerel. In the late spring there are an awful lot of cockerels about as they’re knocked on the head because you only ne