Food Monday ~ Country Pâté

Country Pâté

  • 1 lb Chicken Livers
  • ½ lb cooked Chicken
  • ½ lb Chicken fat
  • 2 rashers Bacon
  • 1 clove of garlic crushed
  • 1 Onion
  • few Mushrooms
  • 2 Eggs
  • Mixed herbs
  • pepper & salt
  • flour to thicken
  • 1 glass Brandy
  • ¼ pint Cream

Melt the fat and fry livers, chopped bacon, onions, garlic, mushrooms and seasoning.Keep well covered.When almost cooked add eggs and poach hard in the liquid with the other ingredients.

Skim off some of the fat to seal.

Mince all the above with the cooked chicken meat.Thicken the remaining liquid with flour, cook and fold into minced mixture with brandy and cream.

Press into Pâté dish and chill. Seal with melted fat and continue chilling.

15 thoughts on “Food Monday ~ Country Pâté

  1. Grannymar Post author

    Rhyleysgranny – it has been some time since I made this one myself. As I was typing chicken livers I remembered something else I did with them. Dip the chicken livers in beaten egg or yoghurt then coat with breadcrumbs and fry them… yummy!

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  2. bikehikebabe

    Call this one Country Cholesterol Pate what with the 1/2# of chicken fat, 2 rashers (??) of bacon & 1/4 pt of cream. Sorry I HAD to point that out, tho’ I’m sure it is Yummy.
    If it is Yummy, not good for the Tummy.

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  3. Grannymar Post author

    Bhb – a ‘rasher’ is a slice of bacon. You certainly wouldn’t eat all of the Pâté by yourself. I sometimes have some for a starter or on toast or crusty bread for lunch with a bunch of grapes! When making it just for me, it has less fat and NO cream!

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  4. Maynard

    Grannymar, I would not say that BHB would not eat all of the pate herself. She needs all the energy she can get to beat down those rattlesnakes that come into her yard!

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  5. Baino

    This is so simple and so delicious I don’t know why we don’t make it more often .. .ah that would be the cholesterol factor! Seriously, I’ll keep this one!

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  6. Grannymar Post author

    Maynard – Thankfully I am not troubled by rattlesnakes, but I am pestered by other peoples cats!

    WWW – I look forward to a vegetarian Pâté and I some of my commentators will too.

    Rhyleysgranny – I am sure a sweet chilli sauce or indeed a ginger one would go well with the crumbed chicken livers.

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