Beef Tongue
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Soak the beef tongue in cold water overnight.
Cook
Wash the tongue and boil it for four to five hours.
Serve
Once cooked, remove the skin and cut the tongue into thin slices.
Serve the slices with salad dressing.
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
- Is the main ingredient, becoming tender through long simmering and then sliced for serving.
The step that matters
Boiling the tongue for four to five hours. Tongue is a tough muscle rich in connective tissue. Long, gentle boiling breaks that collagen down into gelatin, which makes the meat tender. Cutting it too early leaves it chewy.
“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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