BEEF TONGUE 
It's expensive, but there are no bones - it's all meat.

1 (2-3 lb.) beef tongue
1/4 tsp. oregano
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. marjoram
1/4 tsp. summer savory

Rinse tongue. Place in pressure cooker. Add water to cover. Add the remaining ingredients. Pressure cook 1 hour at 10 or 15 pounds. Remove from pan and allow to cool enough to handle. Remove connective tissues and skin. The skin should come off easily. Cut into 1/4-inch slices across it's length. At this point, the meat can be used as you desire. It makes excellent "cold cut" sandwiches, fried like "Canadian bacon", or with various sauces.

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Beef Tongue
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 Fred (New York) says:
Free here in Rochester NY, if you know someone who is butchering a cow and doesn't want the heart and tongue.
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 J (Maryland) says:
Good recipe.
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 Tammy V (Tennessee) says:
buy it at Wal-Mart cheap
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 Rod (Indiana) says:
Beef Tongue $3.98 lb. at Wal-Mart in Logansport. Was over $4.00 until recently.
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 Jake (British Columbia) says:
Whole beef tongue $4.65 Chilliwack BC. Ordered from my butcher, he even threw in 1 1/2 lb kidneys.
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 Martha Trudeau (Vermont) says:
I'm fixing beef tongue for the first time. I have a free source; I just go to local slaughter jobs to get tripe for my dog and end up with other good parts no one seems to want.
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 Charles Beard (California) says:
Beef toungue is as pricey as steak because almost all of the tongue is shipped to Japan where it is a delicacy. I kid you not so are beef sphincters!
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 Rina (South Africa) says:
$1,50 per kg (2,2 lb thus per lb it will be $0,68 per lb) here in South Africa. Living in the land of milk and honey I think. Maybe us Africans are not so bad as the images reflected by the rest of the world. (Please note that we use the "," where the US uses the ".")!
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 Cindy (United States) says:
I've not tried this recipe yet, but I love to eat beef tongue sliced with a blackened butter-caper sauce. Basically, you just take some butter, heat it until it turns brown, then throw in a spoonful of capers and one small splash if red wine vinegar and voila! Pour it over the meat sliced up and you've got a tasty (pardon the pun) entre.
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 Leslie (United States) says:
Montana $2.99 lb Purchased same day it was butchered at local meat market. Doesn't matter if it's 2, 3 or 5 lbs, always tender. 45 min. per lb is perfect. Have never soaked, but do skim top of water every 45 min. Cooking one today in large cast iron pot with sealing lid on gas range. I don't think it need any seasoning. Enjoy the full flavor of the meat with S & P at the table. Num Yummy!
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 Mrs. Strunk (Iowa) says:
Boil in pickling spices. Cheapest easiest best flavor. My mother was a Cordon Bleu trained chef that's how she taught me.
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 Wendelin (Ontario) says:
I am going to try this with Bison tongue!!!
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 AL DEDMON (Washington) says:
Here in the Seattle area I pd $4.49 lb for a 3.5 lb one today. It was frozen but it tasted great after I cooked it in 4qts of water plus 4tsp salt, 4 garlic cloves whole, couple bay leaves. After it boiled I reduced heat to low and put the lid on so it could breath while cooking for two hrs. Let it cool in it's own juices for couple hrs then slice and enjoy. Don't forget to peel it after it's cooked then let it cool in it's juices. D&D meat mkt in North Lake is a good place to buy it on their web site.
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 Valerie M (United States) says:
$3.44 per pound at Sam's Club in Honolulu.
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 Natalie (Georgia) says:
$5.99 per pound - grass fed beef. Very hard to find - had to call store manager and asked to special order for me.
Love it!

 

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