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Boiled Tongue or Ham

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Boiled Tongue or Ham

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wipe the meat and place it in a kettle.

  2. Cover with cold water and bring slowly to a boil.

  3. Boil for 5 minutes, then remove any scum.

  4. Simmer until tender, about 3 to 4 hours.

  5. Cool slightly in the cooking water, then remove from water and peel off the skin.

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.

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