RECIPE: REC: Poor Man's Pâté De Foie Gras - this is wonderful stuff

RECIPE:

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Poor Man's Pâté De Foie Gras

With a Jug of Wine

Morrison Wood

1/2 lb. liverwurst sausage

1 3-oz. pkg. cream cheese

4 tbsp. mayonnaise

1/3 cup cream

1 tbsp. melted butter

1/2 tsp. curry powder

1 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce

1 tbsp. dry sherry wine

1/4 tsp. each salt and pepper .

Tiny pinch cayenne pepper

Tiny pinch grated nutmeg

With a fork mash and blend the sausage, cream cheese, mayonnaise, and cream. Then add the remaining ingredients, blending everything thoroughly (an Osterizer electric blender does the job perfectly). Let chill in the refrigerator before serving.

I might say, due to the difference in curry powders, that you should start with 1/4 teaspoon of curry powder, and taste. If necessary, add a little more, pinch by pinch, until you have the right effect. The curry powder should not be discernible, as such.

At La Maison Wood, when we dine en famille, we always have two cocktails apiece an hour or so before dinner. With the cocktails we sometimes munch on a few nuts, sometimes on a little garlic cheese or anchovy cheese, (these are packaged commercially, and are really excellent) spread on crackers, and sometimes on our .own special canapés. They are the most taste-teasing, tantalizing, and terrific canap6s I have ever tasted (I know I'm immodest, but please forgive me). But one needs real will power to keep from devouring several, and thereby spoiling one's dinner. Take my advice, and don't make more than three apiece.

 
no, although i don't think it's time to try the reduced fat version...

i was gonna say hormel, but for some reason

 
no, although i don't think it's time to try the reduced fat version...

i was gonna say hormel, but for some reason i'ver never found any kosher braunschweiger.

 
This reminds me of another oldie but goodie, Pate en Gelee REC

THis is from the Elegant but Easy cookbook from 1967. We thought it was high style. The caption says it will fool the most discriminating gourmet, so there!

Mix together:
2 cans liver pate
1 4.5 oz can deviled ham
6 oz cream cheese
Worcestershire sauce to taste

Dissolve 1 envelope gelatin in 1/2 C water and add to 1 C beef consomme and 1/4 C sherry which have been heated together. Pour a small amount of the gelatin mixture in the bottom of a 1.5 quart mold. When almost set arrange on the bottom: sliced stuffed olives. Pour remaining gelatin mixture into the mold. Let it set. Put pate mixture on top. Refrigerate. Unmold and serve with party rye or crackers.

I took this to a 60's party a couple of years ago and it was greeted like an old friend.

 
Janet, if you can't find

canned liver, will something like liver wurst do? Can you tell I'm a new cook?? smileys/smile.gif

 
Hi Susan, I don't see why liverwurst wouldn't work, just...........

mash it up well. If you are a new cook you might enjoy a copy of the book this came from. The things really are "Elegant but Easy". Some may be a bit dated but there are plenty of good ones. The authors are Marian Burros and Lois Levine. You might pick one up in a 2nd hand bookstore or online at alibris.com The full title, if you are searching online is: "The Elegant but Easy Cookbook". I just noticed the price on the front of my yellowed copy is $1.25! Wow.

 
Thanks for the

advice Janet. I love the recipes from way back when. For instance, I love pigs in the blanket, and I'm always surprised at how fast these appetizers go. Can't wait to try your recipe.

 
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