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To Boil a Smoked Tongue

A boiled smoked tongue served with some of its cooking water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Boil a Smoked Tongue

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the smoked tongue overnight in cold water.

  2. The next morning, scrape and clean it thoroughly.

  3. Place it in a pot covered with cold water.

Cook

  1. Boil gently for about 4 hours until the small bones can be easily pulled out.

  2. Remove the pot from heat and let it cool until the water is cold.

Finish and serve

  1. Take out the tongue, trim off any coarse parts, and skin it.

  2. Serve the tongue with some of the reserved cooking water to retain freshness.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Smoked tongue
Is the main ingredient, whose cured and smoked flavour defines the dish.

The step that matters

Boiling gently for about 4 hours. Boiling hard can toughen the meat and break it up, while gentle simmering over a long time softens the connective tissue so the meat becomes tender and the small bones loosen enough to pull out.

“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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