Neat's Tongues

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
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Not a recipe
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Ingredients (12)
for the tongues
for the sauce
to finish the sauce
Instructions (7)
  1. Take neat's tongues, boil them tender, peel them, cut them into thin slices, and fry them in fresh butter.
  2. Pour out the butter, put in as much gravy as you shall want for sauce, a bundle of sweet herbs, an onion, some pepper and salt, and a blade or two of mace.
  3. Simmer all together half an hour.
  4. Take out your tongue, strain the gravy, put it with the tongue in the stew-pan again.
  5. Beat up the yolks of two eggs with a glass of white wine, a little grated nutmeg, a piece of butter as big as a walnut rolled in flour.
  6. Shake all together for four or five minutes.
  7. Dish it up, and send it to table.
Original Text
TAKE neat's tongues, boil them tender, peel them, cut them into thin slices, and fry them in fresh butter; then pour out the butter, put in as much gravy as you shall want for sauce, a bundle of sweet herbs, an onion, some pepper and salt, and a blade or two of mace; simmer all together half an hour, then take out your tongue, strain the gravy, put it with the tongue in the stew-pan again, beat up the yolks of two eggs with a glass of white wine, a little grated nutmeg, a piece of butter as big as a walnut rolled in flour, shake all together for four or five minutes, dish it up, and send it to table.
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