To Dress Beef Tongues

Modern cookery for private families · Acton, Eliza · 1845

Source: Modern cookery for private families
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Ingredients (2)

Two or three carrots ↝ Carrots, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
a large bunch of savoury herbs

Instructions (9)

When taken fresh from the pickle they require no soaking, unless they should have remained in it much beyond the usual time, or have been cured with a more than common proportion of salt.
When they have been smoked and highly dried, they should be laid for two or three hours into cold, and as much longer into tepid water, before they are dressed.
If extremely dry, ten or twelve hours must be allowed to soften them.
They should always be brought very slowly to boil.
Add two or three carrots and a large bunch of savoury herbs after the scum is cleared off.
Simmer until they are extremely tender, when the skin will peel from them easily.
A highly dried tongue of moderate size will usually require from three and a half to four hours’ boiling.
An unsmoked one requires about an hour less.
For one which has not been salted at all a shorter time will suffice.

Original Text

TO DRESS BEEF TONGUES.

When taken fresh from the pickle they require no soaking, unless they should have remained in it much beyond the usual time, or have been cured with a more than common proportion of salt; but when they have been smoked and highly dried, they should be laid for two or three hours into cold, and as much longer into tepid water, before they are dressed: if extremely dry, ten or twelve hours must be allowed to soften them, and they should always be brought very slowly to boil. Two or three carrots and a large bunch of savoury herbs, added after the scum is cleared off, will improve them. They should be simmered until they are extremely tender, when the skin will peel from them easily. A highly dried tongue of moderate size will usually require from three and a half to four hours’ boiling; an unsmoked one about an hour less; and for one which has not been salted at all a shorter time will suffice.

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