Dry Pickle for Ox Tongue

Name: Dry Pickle for Ox Tongue
Ingredients: 2 oz. bay salt; ½ oz. saltpetre; 8 oz. brown sugar; 1 teaspoon ground mace; 6 oz. coarse salt; ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper; ½ teaspoon ground ginger; ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon; ½ teaspoon ground cloves

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Farmhouse Kitchen

By Audrey Ellis

Published 1971

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Ingredients

6 oz. coarse salt
2 oz. bay salt
½ oz.

Household
Preserve
Spicy
Gluten-free

Method

Mix all the ingredients well together, then put into the chosen container. Put the tongue into the mixture and rub it well in. Leave the tongue in this pickle for about 10 days, turning and rubbing it thoroughly every day.

To cook salted ox Tongue

Thoroughly rinse the tongue in cold water and put into a large pan with fresh cold water, a bouquet gar