Italian Tongue

Ingredients

• a beef tongue
• a tablespoonful of butter
• 1 chopped onion
• 2 cloves of garlic minced fine
• 1 tablespoonful of flour
• a little water
• 1 cup of tomato-sauce
• 1/2 cup chopped mushrooms
• lemon-juice
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1/2 glass of sherry wine

Method

1. 1

   Boil the tongue until tender, skin, and slice thin.

2. 2

   Heat butter, add onion and garlic, stir in flour until brown.

3. 3

   Add water, tomato sauce, mushrooms, lemon juice, salt, and pepper.

4. 4

   Let boil, add sliced tongue, and sherry wine.

5. 5

   Simmer for ten minutes and serve with baked macaroni.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from 365 foreign dishes (1908) by Josephine Preston Peabody, page 9. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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