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Tongues

From The homekeeper (1872).

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A historical recipe

The homekeeper, by S. D. [from old catalog] Farrar (1872).

United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

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

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. a quart of cold water

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. These may be bought fresh in the market, and are very gQod.
  2. Put them into a stone jar with a half-cup of table-salt to a quart of cold water ;
  3. cover it ;
  4. and in one or two days they are fit to cook.
  5. Put them into boiling water enough to cook them, and let them boil one and a half hours.
  6. They should be peeled, and are good hot or cold.
  7. Hearts need boiling the same length of time.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Vegetable peeler
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Credit

From The homekeeper (1872), printed page 55, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/homekeeper00farr

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.