There are some recipes from the past which just do not transfer to the present… at the moment. Maybe in the future when more years have passed since the eighty since Round-the-Clock Cookery Book was published, a recipe involving cooked tongue (beef) will be popular… if in the future people still eat meat as we know meat! I’m not sure that in the present many people eat tongue, let alone cook with it!
This really does sound an extraordinary recipe, though it might, just might taste fine!
Tongue Balls
- ¼lb cooked tongue
- 2 oz macaroni
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tbsp
- breadcrumbs
- 1 teacup tomato sauce
- pinch of salt and pepper
- fat for frying
- boil the macaroni until tender, strain and cut into small pieces
- when cold add chopped tongue and egg yolk and seasoning
- make into balls, roll in breadcrumbs and fry in deep fat
- serve with tomato sauce
I just can’t imagine anyone these days making a fried ball of chopped macaroni and tongue, and the tomato sauce – even if it is homemade, doesn’t sound exactly the sort of thing to serve with it. How would it be eaten, what would accompany it – chips, boiled potatoes, more pasta, rice, boiled vegetables, salad? Well, probably none of those things were intended because ‘Tongue Balls’ comes in the section on breakfasts…is this really what people might have eaten at breakfast, really? Really?? Times change; this recipe was between the warts, it wasn’t planned with thoughts of rations or shortages. Was ti unusual even in the 1930’s? Did people who bought the book think it was rather odd? Or was this just the sort of thing which someone might cook for something different? Who knows!!
Lois Elsden 
I saw a British show years ago about there eating habits. It seems that the average person especially the children were there healthiest just after WW2..Probably because of there diet and the rationing. I don’t recall seeing too many obese people when I was a kid and the ladies always looked so svelte.
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I think I’ve come across the same thing! honestly, you would be shocked at how many really fat, not just chubby, but fat people there are in Britain now. The saddest thing of all is to see fat kids.
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I’m not sure but I think it was Coco Chanel that said a woman can’t be too rich or too thin. Every morning my lovely wife throws her arms around me and says “I love you’re money, oops I mean I love you honey. Funny girl that one! Makes great homemade lasagna tho.Yummm!
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Never ay chance of being either of those things!!
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Who likes them skinny biker chic super models anyhow. Got no soul or brains and selfish to boot.
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Right!
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I occasionally cook a tongue, but few people will eat it. Pity, it’s tasty food.
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