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Lambs’ Tongues with Artichokes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Lambs’ Tongues with Artichokes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the tongues in salted water for at least 2 hours. You can do this the night before.

  2. Cool the tongues in cold water, peel off the skin, and split them lengthwise.

  3. After roasting meat, place the tongues in the roasting pan to glaze for about 5 minutes until slightly browned.

  4. Boil the artichokes in salted water until tender, about 30 minutes. Cut them in half and scoop out the fibrous part.

  5. Drain the artichokes and serve half a tongue with half an artichoke on each end, topped with brown gravy.

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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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Butter + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,338 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Lamb + artichoketop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together59 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Artichoke + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together893 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Artichoke + saucetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together462 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Lamb + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Butter and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,338 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

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