To Boil Tongue
Ingredients
Directions
Cook the tongue
Cover the tongue with cold water in a pot.
Boil moderately for seven hours.
Remove the tongue from the pot and place it in cold water for five minutes.
Skin the tongue immediately and refrigerate.
Serve
Slice thinly and garnish with sliced lemon.
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
- Freshly pickled tongue
- Is the main ingredient, and its brine-cured meat is what gets cooked and sliced.
The step that matters
Skinning the tongue immediately after cooling. The skin is easiest to peel while the tongue is still warm and soft. Letting it cool fully after the cold-water bath can make the skin cling and tear, so it should be removed promptly.
“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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