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Skewered liver served with optional bacon and wine, coated in oil and breadcrumbs, broiled until cooked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and liver work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 731 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The Breakfast Book

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Skewer 27 pieces together.

  2. Dip the skewers in oil.

  3. Sprinkle with bread crumbs.

Cook and serve

  1. Broil until cooked.

  2. Season to taste and serve.

  3. If not using bacon, pour a glass of wine into the pan and serve with liver arranged around it.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Bread + livertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together731 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Bread + winetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together956 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  3. Wine + livertop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together251 recipes

    Shared aroma: terpineol (pine, woody).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Liver
Forms the main body of the dish, providing the rich, meaty flavour.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp coating that browns under the broiler and helps hold the surface together.
Oil
Carries moisture onto the skewers and helps the crumbs stick and brown evenly.

The step that matters

Broil until cooked. Liver turns dry and grainy when overcooked, while underdone liver is unsafe to eat. Watching closely under the broiler keeps the inside tender and fully cooked.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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