Liver Pate with Aspic Recipe
Summary
Ingredients
1 pound beef liver
1/2 pound chicken livers
1 medium-size onion, chopped
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
1/4 cup water
1 envelope instant chicken broth OR 1 chicken bouillon cube
2 eggs, beaten
1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
1/4 teaspoon leaf thyme, crumbled
5 slices bacon
Beef Aspic
1 hard-cooked egg, shelled
Directions
1. Snip out any large tubelike membranes from beef liver; cut into chunks. Halve chicken livers; snip out veiny parts or skin.
2. Put both meats through a food chopper, using a fine blade; place in a medium-size bowl.
3. Saute onion in butter or margarine until soft in a small frying pan; stir in water and chicken broth or bouillon cube; heat to boiling, crushing bouillon cube, if used, with a spoon; stir into liver mixture with eggs, allspice and thyme.
4. Place 3 slices of the bacon in a loaf pan, 5x3x2; spoon in liver mixture; top with remaining bacon. Cover pan tightly with foil.
5. Set in baking pan on oven shelf; pour boiling water into pan to depth of about 1 inch.
6. Bake in moderate oven (350°) 1 1/2 hours, or until loaf starts to pull away from sides of pan; remove from pan of water; take off foil. Cool loaf, then chill overnight.
7. Make Beef Aspic.
8. Peel bacon from top of loaf; loosen loaf around edges with a knife; invert onto a plate; peel off remaining bacon. Wash pan and dry well.
9. Pour 1/4 cup of the aspic into loaf pan; place in a pan of ice and water to speed setting; chill just until sticky-firm.
10. While layer chills, halve hard-cooked egg lengthwise, cutting just through the white. Slice yolk carefully; cut white into 8 or 10 tiny flower shapes with a truffle cutter.
11. Arrange two of the yolk slices and white cut-outs in a pretty pattern on sticky-firm aspic in pan; carefully pour in another 1/2 cup aspic; let set until sticky-firm.
12. Place pate loaf over aspic layer in pan; pour in enough of the remaining aspic to fill pan to rim. Remove from ice and water; chill in refrigerator at least 4 hours, or until aspic is firm. Pour remaining aspic into a pan, 8x8x2; chill.
13. Just before serving, run a sharp-tip thin-blade knife around top of loaf, then dip pan very quickly in and out of hot water. Cover pan with a chilled serving plate; turn upside down; gently lift off pan.
14. Cut remaining aspic layer into tiny cubes; spoon around pate loaf. Garnish with radish flowers and snips of radish leaves.
2. Put both meats through a food chopper, using a fine blade; place in a medium-size bowl.
3. Saute onion in butter or margarine until soft in a small frying pan; stir in water and chicken broth or bouillon cube; heat to boiling, crushing bouillon cube, if used, with a spoon; stir into liver mixture with eggs, allspice and thyme.
4. Place 3 slices of the bacon in a loaf pan, 5x3x2; spoon in liver mixture; top with remaining bacon. Cover pan tightly with foil.
5. Set in baking pan on oven shelf; pour boiling water into pan to depth of about 1 inch.
6. Bake in moderate oven (350°) 1 1/2 hours, or until loaf starts to pull away from sides of pan; remove from pan of water; take off foil. Cool loaf, then chill overnight.
7. Make Beef Aspic.
8. Peel bacon from top of loaf; loosen loaf around edges with a knife; invert onto a plate; peel off remaining bacon. Wash pan and dry well.
9. Pour 1/4 cup of the aspic into loaf pan; place in a pan of ice and water to speed setting; chill just until sticky-firm.
10. While layer chills, halve hard-cooked egg lengthwise, cutting just through the white. Slice yolk carefully; cut white into 8 or 10 tiny flower shapes with a truffle cutter.
11. Arrange two of the yolk slices and white cut-outs in a pretty pattern on sticky-firm aspic in pan; carefully pour in another 1/2 cup aspic; let set until sticky-firm.
12. Place pate loaf over aspic layer in pan; pour in enough of the remaining aspic to fill pan to rim. Remove from ice and water; chill in refrigerator at least 4 hours, or until aspic is firm. Pour remaining aspic into a pan, 8x8x2; chill.
13. Just before serving, run a sharp-tip thin-blade knife around top of loaf, then dip pan very quickly in and out of hot water. Cover pan with a chilled serving plate; turn upside down; gently lift off pan.
14. Cut remaining aspic layer into tiny cubes; spoon around pate loaf. Garnish with radish flowers and snips of radish leaves.
