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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.
sheep's tongues in salt :ui(l water for two hours, boil them in stock till tlie skin will peel off easily, and skin them. Let them get cold, then cut them into slices the third of an inch thick. Take half a pint of thick brown sauce nicely seasoned and flavoured. Dip the shces into this, and arrange them in a circle on a dish. Sprinkle finely-grated bread-crumbs thickly over them, pour a little oiled butterSheep's Tongues, Stewed upon them, and brown them in the «vcn or before the fire. Pour the sauce into the centre of the circle, and garnish the dish with toasted sippets. If brown gravy is not at hand, it may be made as follows : — Put half a pint of stock made from bones into a saucepan with a mode- rate-sized onion or two shallots, a scraped carrot, a bunch of parsley, a clove, and three or four outer sticks of celery. Simmer all gently together for an hour. Strain the gravy, add pepper and salt if required, thicken it with a little brown thickening, stir a glass of port into it, and it will be ready for use. Time to boil the tongues, two hours. Probable cost, 4d. to 6d. each. Sufficient for four or five persons. Sheep's Tongues with Cabbage Lettuces. — The tongues are first of aU to be braized. Take a dozen and a half of good cabbage-lettuces, wash them very clean, and blanch them. When they are cold, and you have squeezed all the water out of them, open them in two, take off the stalks, powder a little salt and pepper over them ; then shut them, and give them a good form ; place them in a stewpan, surrounded with layers of bacon ; moisten them with a httle braizeSheep's Tongues with Cabbage Lettuces, or anything- to give them a good taste ; otherwise take the pst-top, with a little broth and salt. When the lettuces are quite done, drain them, and squeeze them in a cloth to extract the grease. Dish them in rosettes, first a tongue, then a lettuce, and so on successively. Put a large tongue in the centre to improve the look of the rosette. Another time cut the tongues in two, and dish them miroton way — that is, one haK of a tongue, and lettuce, alternately. In this case, put a jardiniere in the centre, and cover both the tongues and the lettuce with Spanish sauce. — Ude. Sheep's Tongues, with Turnips. — Take eight tongues of an equal size ; let them disgorge in a little water and flour, and next blanch them. When thoroughly blanched, put them in a stewpan to braize. In case you should have a braize of beef, or of mutton, or any others, they vdU all equally answer the purpose for sheei^'s tongues ; when they are done, peel them, and cut them in two. Dish them miroton way, and cover with the sauce of the haricot, the turnips of course being put in the middle. It is customary in French cookery to call anj-thing made with turnips haricot. Sheep's Trotters, or Sheep's Feet. — Sheep's trotters may generally be obtained at the tripe shops cleaned and partially boiled. When it is necessary to clean them at home, remove the wool from the hoofs, singe away SHE ( 862 ) SHE