To Boil Tongue
Ingredients
Directions
Cook
Place the pickled tongue in a pot with hot water.
Boil slowly for 5 to 6 hours, until the skin comes off easily.
Cool and press
Leave the tongue in the cooking water until it cools.
Transfer the tongue to a mold and place a weight on top.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Pickled tongue
- The main meat; long slow cooking softens its tough connective tissue.
The step that matters
Keep the water at a slow boil. Vigorous boiling toughens meat and can break the tongue apart. Gentle heat over several hours slowly softens connective tissue, so the skin loosens cleanly.
“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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