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Tongue as a Side Dish

4 servings

Ingredients

• beef tongue, cooked until tender (pcs)
• salt (a little)
• nutmeg or crushed pepper (a little)
• 1 pcs egg, beaten
• rusk, crushed (a little)
• butter (a little)

Instructions

1. After the tongue is cooked until very tender, peel it and split or slice it thinly.
2. Sprinkle these with a little salt and, if desired, nutmeg or crushed pepper, dip them in beaten egg, roll them in crushed rusk, and fry them until golden brown in shimmering butter.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.