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  • Trim ox-tongue, which should be obtained salted or pickled ready for use.

    The Story of Crisco Marion Harris Neil

  • _*Braised Ox-Tongue_ -- 1 ox-tongue, 1 pint stock, 1 onion, 1 small carrot, 1 bouquet garni, 1 clove, 1/2 pint piquante sauce, and 6 thin slices bacon.

    The Story of Crisco Marion Harris Neil

  • Then the bell was answered, and he delivered into Withers 'hands one, two tins of corned beef and a round ox-tongue.

    Miss Mapp 1903

  • If it was a Friday he could have a ragoût of chicken in the Bremen style, or a slice from a Hamburg leg of mutton with cream sauce and celery salad, or ox-tongue cooked with young turnips.

    Home Life in Germany Alfred Sidgwick 1894

  • I turned the bread out of this until there was only enough left to serve them amply for the time they were likely to be afloat, and in on top of this I popped half a cheese, together with a cooked ox-tongue, which we had only cut into that morning at breakfast, and a piece of boiled salt beef.

    The Rover's Secret A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba Harry Collingwood 1886

  • I threw some coal on the fire, and placed an ox-tongue along with the cheese and a lump of the frozen wine in a pannikin in the oven (for I had a mind to taste the vessel's stores, and thought the tongue would make an agreeable change), and then putting a candle into the lanthorn walked very bravely to the forecastle and entered it.

    The Frozen Pirate 1877

  • An ox-tongue pickled in this way is most excellent, to be eaten either green or smoked.

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

  • An ox-tongue pickled in this way is most excellent, to be eaten either green or smoked.

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

  • It tastes not unlike ox-tongue; and all of them liked it exceedingly.

    Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850

  • It tastes not unlike ox-tongue; and all of them liked it exceedingly.

    The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family Mayne Reid 1850

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