Name: To Dress Beef Tongues
Ingredients: beef tongue; cold water

To Dress Beef Tongues

Ingredients

beef tongue
cold water

Directions

Boil the beef tongue until tender, about 5 hours.
If the tongue has been in pickle for a long time, soak it in cold water for 3-4 hours.
If it has been smoked and hung for a long time, soak it in water for 5-6 hours.
Bring the tongue to a gentle boil, then simmer until tender.

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.