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Boiled Tongue

A boiled ox tongue served thinly sliced with caper sauce or sauce piquant.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Boiled Tongue

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the tongue

  1. Boil the ox tongue for three hours until tender.

  2. Remove the tongue from the pot and dip it in cold water.

Prepare and serve

  1. Peel off the skin and slice the tongue thinly.

  2. Serve with caper sauce or sauce piquant.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Ox tongue
Is the main meat, becoming tender through long, slow boiling.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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