Curried Ox-Tongue
From A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922.
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Ingredients
Method
To make the brown sauce: Melt 3 tablespoons of Crisco, add chopped onion, a piece of carrot, and 2 mushrooms, and fry until brown.
Stir in 2 tablespoons of flour and fry, then add 1 cup of stock or water and a few drops of kitchen bouquet.
Cook for ten minutes, stirring constantly, season with salt and pepper, and strain.
To prepare the tongue: Fry slices of cooked ox-tongue in Crisco, season with 0.5 teaspoon of salt and the curry powder.
Add 6 chopped mushrooms and the prepared brown sauce, and simmer for ten minutes.
Cut the dinner roll into slices, toast lightly, dip in beaten egg, and fry in hot Crisco.
Serve the tongue slices alternating with the fried bread slices, pour the sauce around the base, and accompany with boiled rice.
Original recipe, verbatim
Curried Ox-Tongue
6 slices cooked ox-tongue 1 cupful brown sauce
3 tablespoonfuls Crisco 1 dinner roll
2 teaspoonfuls curry powder 1 egg
6 chopped mushrooms 1 cupful boiled rice
For tongue. Cut slices of tongue, fry in Crisco, Reason with ^ tea-
spoonful salt and curry powder, then add mushrooms, and brown sauce,
simmer ten minutes. Cut large dinner roll into slices, and toast them
lightly on both sides; dip them in egg well beaten, then fry in hot Crisco
and drain. Dish up slices of tongue alternately with fried slices of roll,
pour sauce round base, and serve with boiled rice.
FoT brown sauce. Melt 3 tablespoonfuls Crisco, add 1 chopped onion,
piece of carrot, 2 mushrooms, and fry a good brown color; stir in 2 table-
spoonfuls flour and fry it also; then add 1 cupful stock or water and few
drops of kitchen bouquet. Let all cook ten minutes, stirring constantly
add seasoning of salt and pepper, and strain for use.
Suflicient for 6 slices.
Transcribed as printed in A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922. Spelling and punctuation are left as in the source scan.
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