Spiced Beef Tongue

Original Recipe

Rub into each tongue a mixture made of half a pound of brown sugar, a piece of saltpetre the size of a pea and a tablespoonful of ground cloves, put it in a brine made of three-quarters of a pound of salt to two quarts of water and keep covered. Pickle two weeks, then wash well and dry with a cloth; roll out a thin paste made of flour and water, smear it all over the tongue and place in a pan to bake slowly; baste well with lard and hot water; when done scrape off the paste and skim.

Ingredients

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  • 1 mixture made of half a pound of brown sugar
  • 1 piece of saltpetre the size of a pea and a tablespoonful of ground cloves
  • 1 pound of salt to two quarts of water and keep covered
  • 2 weeks
  • 1 cloth
  • 1 thin paste made of flour and water
  • 1 pan to bake slowly
  • 1 scrape off the paste and skim

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Instructions

  1. 1

    Rub into each tongue a mixture made of half a pound of brown sugar, a piece of saltpetre the size of a pea and a tablespoonful of ground cloves, put it in a brine made of three-quarters of a pound of salt to two quarts of water and keep covered.

  2. 2

    Pickle two weeks, then wash well and dry with a cloth; roll out a thin paste made of flour and water, smear it all over the tongue and place in a pan to bake slowly; baste well with lard and hot water; when done scrape off the paste and skim.

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Recipe by Mrs. F.L. Gillette from The White House Cook Book (1887)