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Reestit Mutton
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| Teep
| meat product
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| Coorse
| starter or main
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| Place o oreegin
| Scotland
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| Region or state
| Shetland
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| Main ingredients
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| Ingredients generally uised
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| Variations
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| Seemilar dishes
| Skerpikjøt
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Reestit mutton
(
pronounced
[?riːst?t? ?m?t?n?]
,
REES
-tit-
MUT
-?n
) is a kind o saat mutton tradeetional tae
Shetland
, Scotland. It is been caaed Shetland's national dysh.
Da naem
reestit mutton
comes fae da
Shetland dialect
wird
reest
, meanin a widden framewark tradeetionally set ower da rafters of a hoose
, whaar da mutton wid tradeetionally hing fae tae dry wi da aid o smok aff o a
paet
fire.
Reestit mutton wis traditionally meyd as a wye o preservin mutton so as it could be aeten trowe da yule. Hit's related tae simlar Scandinavian wyes o dryin flesh, lik skerpikjøt.
If maed richt reestit mutton can bide edible fir up tae fower year.
Reestit mutton is meyd by sokkin a laeg or shooder o mutton in brine. The richt quantity o coorse saat tae watter fir da brine is reckt whin a
taatie
or igg will flot idda solution.
[4]
Some recipes also axe fir da addeetion o a peerie scaar o shuggar or saatpetre tae da mix.
Da mutton is kept idda brine til da solution is reckt aa da pairts o da flesh ? dat can tak aboot tree weeks.
[4]
Den da flesh is hung tae dry closs tae a paet fire til it gings herd.
[4]
Reestit mutton haes a saat flavour
dat is also affected wi da paet smok dat's aboot it whin it's dryin.
Da maet is tocht o as bein hamely tae Shetlanders.
Da first butcher tae sell reestit mutton commercially in Lerwick, Shetland advertised it as haein an acquired taest at you acquire at da first taest.
Reestit mutton is affen osed tae mak reestit mutton soup wi. Da soup is meyd wi taaties an is affen served wi bannocks ? peerie savoury bakes simlar tae scones.
Dis dysh is affen gien oot at da
Up Helly Aa
fire festivals. Hit can also be osed as da fillin o a reestit mutton pie.
