Beef Tongue
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Soak the beef tongue overnight in cold water after washing it well.
The next morning, place the tongue in a pot with plenty of cold water.
Cook
Boil slowly until the tongue is tender throughout, testing with a fork.
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
- Beef tongue
- Its tough connective tissue softens into tender, moist meat during long, gentle cooking.
The step that matters
Boil slowly until tender. A hard rolling boil can toughen the outer meat and cook unevenly. Gentle simmering lets connective tissue slowly break down into gelatin, so testing with a fork until tender matters.
“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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