Boiled Tongue
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Soak the tongue overnight.
Scrape and wash the tongue.
Place it in a pot with cold water.
Cook and serve
Simmer for about 4 hours without boiling.
Once done, set it aside to cool.
Skin the tongue while it is still hot.
Garnish the dish with mashed potatoes.
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
- Tongue
- The main ingredient, whose long gentle simmer makes the meat tender.
The step that matters
Simmer without boiling. A rolling boil toughens meat proteins and can break the tongue apart, while a gentle simmer lets the connective tissue soften slowly into tender meat.
“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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