Liver and Bacon

Ingredients

• Cut a pound of fat bacon
• Cut a sheep’s liver in slices
• Fry an ounce of flour brown
• add a pint of boiling water

Method

1. 1

   Fry bacon slowly, then fry floured liver in bacon fat.

2. 2

   Serve liver on a hot dish with bacon.

3. 3

   Make gravy by frying flour, adding boiling water, and seasoning.

4. 4

   Pour over meat.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Roundell's Practical cookery book (1898) by Roundell, Charles Mrs, page 154. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Liver and Bacon was seen, At the bottom was Tripe in a swinging tureen.” Oliver Goldsmith, who hated Liver and said that Tripe was his “ utter aversion,” thus described the dinner at which his own haunch of venison was to have appeared, made into a pasty. His friend’s wife, “little Kitty, so famous for crust,” had indeed made the pasty, but the baker had forgotten to put it in the oven, and the poor poet got no dinner. Liver and Bacon is now hardly ever seen, and Tripe is never seen, on the tables of well-regulated families. But were a fashionable doctor to order Tripe (really a light and nutritious food), his patients and their friends would as usual follow each other like sheep, and would declare that Tripe was the only meat they could touch. In view of this contingency I will ex- plain how Tripe should be cooked. Tripe is part of the stomach of a pig, and tripe-dressers are persons who prepare it for cooking. It can be cooked in either milk or broth. For the former method order two pounds of what is called “double Tripe.” Blanch it by putting it into cold water and bringing it to the boil. Blanch three onions also. Cut the tripe into neat pieces, divide the onions in half, and put both into two pints and a half of milk, seasoning it with pepper and salt. Stew the Tripe and Onions gently for an hour to an hour and half. Take out the onions and chop them, lay the Tripe on a hot dish, thicken the milk with a couple of ounces of flour, boil it up, add the onions, and pour it over the Tripe. Serve very hot, in “ a swinging tureen,” that is, a dish with a lamp under it. Half milk and half water can be used. Or broth can be substi- tuted for the milk. Liver and Bacon. — Cut a pound of fat bacon into slices, and fry them slowly in a frying-pan. Cut a sheep’s liver in slices, flour them, take the bacon out of the pan, and fry the liver in the bacon fat. Put the liver on a hot dish, and the bacon round it. Fry an ounce of flour brown, add a pint of boiling water

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