Boiled Tongue
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Soak the tongue overnight in a pot.
Boil
Boil the tongue for three hours before dinner.
If the tongue is fresh out of the pickle, boil for two and a half hours.
Place the tongue in boiling water.
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
- Tongue
- Forms the whole dish; long boiling softens its tough connective tissue until it turns tender.
The step that matters
Boil the tongue for the full time. Connective tissue in the tongue breaks down into gelatin only through prolonged, gentle cooking in water. Stopping early leaves the meat firm and tough.
“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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