Calves’ Tongues with Salt Pork

Preparation info
  • For

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Poor Cook: Fabulous food for next to nothing

By Susan Campbell and Caroline Conran

Published 1971

  • About

Ingredients

  • ¾ lb salt pork belly (lean end, not soaked)
  • 4 calves’ tongues
  • 1 oni

Method

Put the cleaned chopped vegetables in a large saucepan with the parsley and peppercorns, tongues and freshly salted pork, rind removed. Just cover with water, bring to the boil and simmer really slowly for 2¼-2½ hours, with the water just moving gently. The salt from the pork is absorbed by the tongues as they cook.

When they are tender take them out and skin them, as soon as they are c