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Breaded Tongue with Tomato Sauce

Breaded tongue served in a tomato sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Breaded Tongue with Tomato Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. Cook tomatoes, onion, and bay leaf together for 15 minutes.

  2. Strain the mixture.

  3. Thicken with flour and butter rubbed together.

  4. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Bread and sauté the tongue

  1. Slice the boiled tongue.

  2. Dip the sliced tongue in beaten egg.

  3. Coat the tongue with bread crumbs.

  4. Sauté the breaded tongue in butter until golden.

Serve

  1. Place on a hot dish and pour the sauce around the tongue.

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

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Tomato + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Tomato + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,013 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Tomatoes
Provide the body and acidic, sweet flavour base of the sauce.
Flour
Thickens the strained sauce as it cooks, giving it body.
Butter
Adds richness to the sauce and helps the coated tongue brown in the pan.
Egg
Acts as a glue so the bread crumbs stick to the tongue.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns when sautéed.

The step that matters

Sauté the breaded tongue in butter until golden. Bread crumbs brown through the Maillard reaction, which needs steady medium heat and a dry surface. Too little heat leaves the coating pale and greasy, while too much burns the crumbs before the tongue is heated through.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, flour, butter, pepper, egg, bread):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, flour, butter, pepper, egg, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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