====== Lancashire Hot Pot ======

===== Serving =====
Makes enough for 4 portions

===== Ingredients =====

  * 900g stewing lamb
  * 100g butter
  * 2 medium onions
  * 4 carrots
  * 25g plain flour
  * 2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
  * 500ml lamb or chicken stock
  * 2 bay leaves
  * 900g potato

===== Method =====

  - Cut lamb into large chunks
  - Peel and slice carrots
  - Peel and slice potatoes
  - Heat the oven to 160c (140c fan)
  - Heat some butter in a large shallow casserole dish and brown the lamb in batches, removing to a plate
  - Fry the onions and carrots in the pan with a little more butter
  - Sprinkle over the flour and allow to cook for a couple of minutes
  - Shake over the Worcestershire sauce
  - Pour in the sock and bring to the boil
  - Stir in the meat
  - Add the bay leaves
  - Turn off the heat
  - Arrange the sliced potato on top of the meat, then drizzle over some more melted butter
  - Cover, and place in the oven for about 1½ hours until the potatoes are cooked
  - Remove the lid, brush the potates with more butter, then turn up the oven to brown the potatoes, or finish under a grill