Puritan beef stew has mutton, what animal is it?

Old sheep. I think this is how the naming is broken down.

Lamb meat is from a sheep under a year old.
Hogget is meat from a sheep over a year old but under two years.
Mutton is meat from a sheep that’s over two years old.

Mutton is flesh of mature sheep. The beef stew you speak of probably has a lot more beef than mutton.

Sort of unrelated, but I find it interesting that the word “mutton” is so close to the french word for sheep, mouton.

@Berserker That’s where it comes from.

The ingredient list for Puritan Beef Stew: Ingredients: Water, formed meat (beef, water, salt, monosodium glutamate), potatoes, carrots, modified corn starch, peas, glucose-fructose and/or sugar, salt, enriched wheat flour, monosodium glutamate, caramel colour, seasonings (contains canola oil). Contains: wheat, sulphites.

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that’s the online list- which matches the can I just pulled from the cupboard.

@BellaB Maybe I’m confusing with Irish Stew. Thanks

@kritiper Well I’ll be damned!

@Berserker Will wonders ever cease???

@RedDeerGuy1 , yes, the Irish Stew from Puritan can contain mutton.

Water, formed meat (beef and/or mutton, water, salt, monosodium glutamate), potatoes, carrots, peas, modified corn starch, sugar/glucose-fructose, salt, enriched wheat flour, seasonings (contains salt, canola oil, onion extract, soy lecithin), monosodium glutamate, dehydrated red bell pepper, caramel, spice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_stew

Irish stew (Irish: stobhach / Stobhach Gaelach)[1] is any variety of meat-and-root vegetables stew native to Ireland. As in all traditional folk dishes, the exact recipe is not consistent from time or place to place. Common ingredients include lamb, or mutton (mutton is used as it comes from less tender sheep over a year old, is fattier, and has a stronger flavour, and was generally more common in less-affluent times) as well as potatoes, onions, and parsley.[2] It may sometimes also include carrots.