Chicken Liver Custards

Ingredients

• One cupful cooked chicken livers
• 3 ^gs
• lyi cupfuls milk
• % tablespoonful of chopped parsley
• ^ teaspoonful onion juice
• yi teaspoonful of salt
• yi teaspoonful of pepper

Method

1. 1

   Chop livers finely.

2. 2

   Beat eggs and mix with all ingredients.

3. 3

   Pour into greased custard cups, place in hot water, cover, and bake until set.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from 365 tasty dishes (1906), page 17. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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