Name: Pickled Tongue
Ingredients: 1 quart water; 1 handful coarse sea salt (formerly 'bay salt'); 1 teaspoon allspice; 1 teaspoon bay leaves; 1 teaspoon saltpetre

Pickled Tongue

Ingredients

Directions

Combine water, coarse sea salt, allspice, bay leaves, and saltpetre in a jar.
Press the mixture and change the position of the jar daily for about 2 weeks.
After 2 weeks, boil the tongue until soft.

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.