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  • pork In meat

    Meat from lambs and sheep is produced on a much smaller scale than either beef or pork (less than one-tenth of that provided by cattle, for example). They ordinarily weigh between 45 and 70 kg (100 and 150 pounds), although the most select lambs may weigh no…

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  • meat cutting In meat processing

    from calves, pork from hogs, lamb from young sheep, and mutton from sheep older than two years. It is with these latter types of red meat that this section is concerned.

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  • meat cutting In meat processing: Lamb fabrication

    Live sheep averaging 45 kilograms yield 22-kilogram carcasses (50 percent yield of live weight). Lamb carcasses are divided into two halves, the foresaddle and hindsaddle, on the fabrication floor. The foresaddle produces the major wholesale cuts of the neck, shoulder, rib, breast, and…

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significance in Indian cuisine

  • sushi In gastronomy: Indian

    Lamb is the most important meat served in northern India. It is prepared in hundreds of different ways as kebabs, curries, and roasts and in rice dishes. In pre-independence days the Mughal cuisine there ranked among the most lavish in the world. Developed during the…

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  • Rack of lamb In lamb

    …of one year and the flesh of such an animal. Mutton refers to the flesh of the mature ram or ewe at least one year old; the meat of sheep between 12 and 20 months old may be called yearling mutton or hogget. The meat of sheep 6 to 10…

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use in Easter customs

  • Raphael: Resurrection of Christ In Easter: Easter customs

    The custom of the Easter lamb appropriates both the appellation used for Jesus in Scripture (“Here is the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” John 1:29) and the lamb’s role as a sacrificial animal in ancient Israel. In antiquity Christians placed lamb meat under the…

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