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Cassell's dictionary of cookery

1892

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Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Tongue which is to be eaten «old should be allowed to cool in the liquid in which it was boiled. Probable cost, 4s. to 6s. each. Sufficient for eight or nine persons. Ox Tongue, Cured. — Cut away the root, which may afterwards be stewed for stock, leave a Mttle of the fat, and trim the tongue neatly. Eub it well -ft^th common salt, and leave it until the next day; drain, and dry it. Mi.x together one ounce of pounded saltpetre, two ounces of moist sugar, and half a pound of salt. Dry them well, and rub every part of the tongue thoroughly with the powder. Turn it and rub it again every day for three weeks, when it will be ready for cooking, or, if not wanted immediately, for drying or smoking. Probable cost, 4s. to 68. Sufficient for eight or nine persons. Ox Tongue, Fresh, Boiled.— Soak a fresh ox tongue for an hour or more. Trim it neatly, and put it into a large stewpan with plenty of cold water, a bunch of savoury herbs, an onion stuck with three cloves, half a dozen peppercorns, and a table-spoonful of saltOx Tongue, Boiled. Let it boil, then draw the saucejjan to the side of the fire, and simmer very gently for three hoxrrs. Ascertain whether the tongue is done enough by pushing a skewer into it, then take off the outer skin, serve the meat on a hot dish, and send piquante or tomato sauce to table in a tiireen. Probable cost, 3s. to 4s. Sufficient for eight or "nine persons. Ox Tongue, Fresh, Larded.— Soak the tongue, and boil it gently for about three hours. Take off the rough skin, and lard the upper part of the tongue evenly with strips of fat bacon. Put it again into the saucepan -with as much of the liquor in which it was boiled as will cover it, a dozen fried button onions, a little pepper and salt, and an ounce and a half of butter, roUed thickly in flour. Stew gently for an hour. A quarter of an hour before the t®ngue is taken up, put with it a table-spoonful of strained lemon-juice and a glassful of port. Serve the tongue on a hot dish with the gravy poured over it. Time, four hours. Probable cost, 48. to 6s. Sufficient for eight or nine persons. Ox Tongue, Fresh, Roasted.— Soak the tongue, and boil it gently for about three hours. Brain it, take off the skin, trim the root neatly, stick about a dozen cloves into it, 32 and roast before a clear fire, basting it well ' with good dripping or butter. Serve on a i hot dish, and send half a pint of good brown ' gravy to table with it. If preferred, the tongue may be egged and bread-crumbed before being j roasted. Red-currant jelly should be eaten I with roasted tongue. Time to roast, half an ' hour. Probable cost, 43. to 63. Sufficient for j eight or nine persons. Ox Tongue, Fresh, Stewed.— Soak Ox Tongue, Fresh, Stewed