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Description: Reestit mutton in butcher's window, Lerwick Reestit mutton is salted, air-dried, smoked mutton. Traditionally, the meat was soaked in brine and hung in the rafters above a peat fire, and it is probably as close to being Shetland’s ‘national’ dish as is possible, although it is a generally agreed by non-native Shetlanders that it is an acquired taste.
Title: Reestit mutton in butcher's window, Lerwick - geograph.org.uk - 1590613
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