What Is Calf tongue and How Can I Use It?
If calf tongue has turned up in a recipe or caught your eye at the store, here's what you need to use it with confidence and how to choose it, cook it, store it, what to substitute, and 3 recipes to try it in.
| In Chinese: | 小牛的舌头 | |
| British (UK) term: | Calf tongue | |
| en français: | veau langue | |
| en español: | lengua de ternera |
Recipes using calf tongue
There are 3 recipes that contain this ingredient.
Grandma's Mince Meat
Old-fashioned mince meat with calf tongue, suet, dried fruit, candied citrus, brandy and whiskey. The traditional pie filling, aged in a crock for at least 7 weeks for deep holiday flavor.
Best Mincemeat
Authentic Victorian mincemeat with boiled calf's tongue, suet, dried fruit, candied citrus peel, brandy, and whiskey. Cures in a crock for 7 weeks before becoming Christmas pie filling. Yields 96 servings.
James Beard's Traditional Mincemeat
Serving a crowd, a traditional mincemeat recipe using cost saving cuts of meat capable once used in other recipes of serving up to 50 people. Marinated in cognac and other liqueurs in an old fashioned crock for weeks.
