Name: Calf's Liver and Bacon
Ingredients: thinly sliced bacon; calf's liver; water; bacon fat; gravy thickener

Calf's Liver and Bacon

Ingredients

Directions

Fry the bacon in a skillet until crisp, then remove and set aside.
Pour hot water over the liver and let it sit for a moment.
Dry the liver with a towel and fry it in the bacon fat until browned.
Arrange the bacon around the edge of a platter and place the liver in the center.
Add enough water to the gravy, thicken it, and pour it over the liver.

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.