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Time: According to the thickness of the slices, from 5 to 10 minutes.

Sufficient for 6 or 7 persons.


Ingredients
  1. 2 or 3 lbs. of liver
  2. bacon
  3. pepper to taste
  4. salt to taste
  5. a small piece of butter
  6. flour
  7. 2 tablespoonfuls of lemon-juice
  8. 1/4 pint of water
Directions
  • Cut the liver in thin slices,
  • Cut as many slices of bacon as there are of liver
  • Fry the bacon first, and put that on a hot dish before the fire
  • Fry the liver in the fat which comes from the bacon, after seasoning it with pepper and salt and dredging over it a very little flour
  • Turn the liver occasionally to prevent its burning
  • When done, lay it round the dish with a piece of bacon between each
  • Pour away the bacon fat
  • Put in a small piece of butter, dredge in a little flour, add the lemon-juice and water
  • Give one boil, and pour it in the middle of the dish
  • It may be garnished with slices of cut lemon, or forcemeat balls

  • Source: The Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton (1859)

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