This section is from the book "Better Meals For Less Money", by Mary Green. Also available from Amazon: Better Meals for Less Money.
3 pounds liver 1 1/2-inch cube salt pork 1/3 cup onion finely chopped 1/3 cup celery finely chopped
1/3 cup carrots finely chopped 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon pepper 2 cups boiling water 1/4 cup flour
Soak liver in cold salted water for half an hour, scald, remove skin, and dredge with flour; cut pork in thin slices, and try out in frying pan; brown liver in pork fat, and place in an earthen dish or kettle, add vegetables, seasonings, and water which has first been put in the frying pan; cover closely, and bake three hours in a slow oven, adding water if necessary; remove liver, and thicken gravy and vegetables with one-fourth cup of flour mixed to a paste with cold water.
1 pound liver
2 cups boiling water
2 tablespoons bacon fat 1 tablespoon grated onion
4 tablespoons flour 3/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon paprika 6 slices of toast
Cut liver into half-inch cubes, and soak in cold salted water fifteen minutes; drain; cover with the boiling water, and simmer six minutes; cook bacon fat, onion, and flour until brown; add seasonings, and stock in which liver was cooked; stir until smooth; add liver, and pour over toast or small, thin baking powder biscuit.
Cook chicken livers in boiling salted water fifteen minutes ; put each liver on half of a slice of bacon, fold other half over liver, and bake in a hot oven until bacon is crisp; moisten slices of toast with the stock in which livers were cooked, and serve two pieces of bacon and livers on toast for each person.
Cut liver in one-third-inch slices; soak in cold water for half an hour; drain, dry, and cook in hot deep fat, with six slices of bacon, until brown.
 
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