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Fried Liver and Bacon

A quick pan‑fried dish of liver coated in flour and cooked with bacon strips.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Liver and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 28% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,418 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Fried Liver and Bacon

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the bacon

  1. Cut the bacon into ⅛ inch strips, 3 inches long.

  2. Fry the bacon until light brown.

Cook the liver and serve

  1. Roll the calf's liver in flour.

  2. Add the liver to the pan and cook until rich brown.

  3. Serve with or without gravy.

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. Liver + flourtop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Bacon
Renders fat for frying and adds savory, smoky flavor to the pan.
Calf's liver
Main ingredient; searing gives it a browned crust while the inside stays tender.
Flour
Coats the liver so it browns more evenly and forms a light crust.

The step that matters

Cooking the liver until rich brown. Liver is lean and its proteins tighten quickly with heat. Cooking it too long past browning makes it dry and tough, so check it closely.

“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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