An eight-pound crown roast (before trimming) emerged from our oven after 45 minutes, just beyond medium rare.
Drizzle olive oil over the inside and the outside of the crown roast, and massage it onto lamb.
Two or three single racks of lamb tied into a circle make a "crown roast of lamb".
Cost has something to do with it: $50 will buy you a lot more brownies than fancy sugar creations, more barbecue than crown roasts.
Her crown roast of lamb would have looked prettier had she shined the bones and put frills on them.
But I only bought lamb chops, or a crown roast or a leg of lamb for that matter, when they were on sale.
What better than a crown roast?
Most butchers will prepare the basic crown roast of lamb with one day's notice.
This year, Mr. Simmons is making a crown roast of pork with a stuffing of brandied dried fruit and sausage.