Wash a fresh or slightly cured beef tongue and boil slowly until tender (about three hours).

Boiled Tongue With Brussells Sprouts.

Skin when hot, and serve sliced around a mound of brussels sprouts, which are cooked as follows:

Brussels Sprouts

1 quart of brussels sprouts

1 pinch soda

2 quarts water 1 teaspoon salt

Wash and clean the brussels sprouts.

Put the soda and salt into two quarts of water and let it come to a boil. Then put the brussels sprouts into the water, and boil from ten to fifteen minutes - watching continually to see that the sprouts do not break in the water.

Take the sprouts from the water with a skimmer, and place on the dish, ready to serve.