Tongue toast

Tongue toast
Type Open sandwich
Course Breakfast or hors d'oeuvre
Main ingredients Bread, beef tongue, scrambled eggs, onions
Cookbook: Tongue toast  Media: Tongue toast

Tongue toast is an open sandwich prepared with sauteed beef tongue and scrambled eggs.[1][2] It is seasoned to taste with black pepper and onions. Sometimes the tongue is served on buttered toast instead, with a poached egg instead of a scrambled one.[3] While it is primarily prepared as a dish for breakfast, it is often eaten for lunch and dinner.[4]

A variant served as breakfast involves the use of boiled, smoked beef tongue, cream, scrambled egg, and seasoned to taste with nutmeg, pepper, chopped parsley, and chopped green peppers.[5] A recent variant involves the use of reindeer tongue.[6]

When it is prepared as an hors d'oeuvre, it is prepared in a similar fashion to French toast, with the star-shaped appetizers stamped out of the buttered toast and mustard butter added to it.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Thomas Jefferson Murrey, Cookery for Invalids (White, Stokes & Allen, 1887)
  2. ↑ Sarah Annie Frost, The Godey's Lady's Book Receipts and Household Hints (Evans, Stoddart & Company 1870)
  3. ↑ Phillis Browne, The Dictionary of Dainty Breakfasts (Cassell 1898, in New York Public Library)
  4. ↑ Milburn (New Jersey) Budget - 11 August 1886
  5. ↑ Rufus Estes, Good Things to Eat, as Suggested by Rufus: A Collection of Practical Recipes for Preparing Meats, Game, Fowl, Fish, Puddings, Pastries, Etc (self published 1911, in New York Public Library)
  6. ↑ Mixed Nuts - Central Europe Review, 20 November 2000
  7. ↑ Auguste Escoffier, The Escoffier Cook Book: a Guide to the Fine Art of Cookery (Random House 1941) ISBN 0-517-50662-9
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