Lamb With Honey

Total Time: 3 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 5 1/2-6 lbs leg of lamb
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon dried rosemary, crushed
• 1 cup apple cider or 1 cup apple juice
• 2/3 cup honey
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 6 medium potatoes, peeled and thinley sliced
• 5 tablespoons butter
• 2 medium onions, thinly sliced

Recipe

• 1 line a shallow roasting pan with foil.
• 2 rub meat with mixture of ginger, salt and pepper.
• 3 place fat side up in roasting pan.
• 4 sprinkle with rosemary.
• 5 combine cider and honey, set aside.
• 6 bake lamb, uncovered for 1 hour in a 325 degree oven.
• 7 pour honey mix over meat.
• 8 bake 1 1/2 hours more basting occasionally with pan juices.
• 9 remove meat to platter.
• 10 keep warm.
• 11 remove and discard fat from pan drippings.
• 12 measure 1 cup pan juices.
• 13 in sauce pan mix cornstarch with 1 tbl water, add the 1 cup of pan juices.
• 14 cook and stir till thickened.
• 15 cook and stir 2 minutes more.
• 16 serve with onion cake.
• 17 onion cake: in a well greased 2 quart casserole, place 1/3 of the potatoes, sprinkle with salt and pepper.
• 18 dot with 1 tbl butter.
• 19 top with 1/2 the onions.
• 20 dot with 1 tbl butter.
• 21 repeat layers, ending with potatoes and the remaining butter.
• 22 bake covered for 1 hour at 325 degrees.
• 23 uncover and bake 30 minutes more.