Lamb Calypso

Name: Lamb Calypso
Yield: Serves 4 to 6
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon salt; ¼ teaspoon pepper, freshly ground; ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon; ½ cup very strong coffee; 1 leg of lamb (4 pounds), trimmed of excess fat and rubbed with salt and pepper; ¼ teaspoon ground allspice; ¼ cup Curarçao; ¼ teaspoon ground mace; A handful of currants; ½ teaspoon orange bitters (optional); 2 tablespoons dark brown sugar; 2 tablespoons dark molasses

Preparation info

Serves
4 to 6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Clay-Pot Cookbook

By Georgia Sales

Published 1974

About

Here's a musty, pungent recipe from the West Indies for the more adventurous cook.

Ingredients

1 leg of lamb (4 pounds), trimmed of excess fat and rubbed with salt and pepper
½ cup

Main course
Gluten-free

Method

Presoak the pot, top and bottom, in water for 15 minutes.

Insert a meat thermometer in the lamb, away from the bone, and place it in the pot.

Combine all the other ingredients, except the currants, and pour over the lamb. Then sprinkle with the currants.

Place the covered pot in a cold oven.

Set the temperature at