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Polish Stewed Tongue

A historical recipe from 365 Foreign Dishes A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year, by Anonymous (1908).

A historical recipe

365 Foreign Dishes A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year, by Anonymous (1908). Project Gutenberg eBook #10011.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Source and licence

From 365 Foreign Dishes A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year, by Anonymous (1908). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #10011 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10011). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Poland. Associated with Poland by a demonym leading its title: Polish (confidence 0.55). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Cook a fresh tongue until tender;
  2. skin and slice thin.
  3. Put a large spoonful of butter in a saucepan;
  4. add a chopped onion;
  5. let brown.
  6. Then stir in 1 tablespoonful of flour;
  7. add 2 cups of the water in which the tongue was cooked, a pinch of nutmeg and cinnamon.
  8. Let boil with the juice of 1 lemon, 2 tablespoonfuls of vinegar and 1 tablespoonful of sugar.
  9. Add the sliced tongue and simmer ten minutes.
  10. Serve hot or cold.