svensk leverpastej

A Recipe

svensk leverpastej Swedish Liver-Pastry

... goes very well with salted & pickled cucumber and butter on crisp rye bread

A sandwich type spread delicatessen which is either boiled, or baked in the oven, from a mixture of liver, onion, butter, milk, flour, egg, lard, anchovy etc.

1½ tbsp	butter or margarine - smör (...eller margarin)
3/4 dl	baking flour - vetemjöl, "bakmjöl"
3½ dl	milk
250 grams	lard, pork fat - ister, flott, fläskfett, stekflott
500 grams	liver (from calf or young pig) - lever från kalv eller kulting
1 or 2 pieces	anchovies (2 pcs. small fish)
1 medium size	green onion - gul lök
½ tbsp	butter (tbsp= tablespoon) - en halv matsked smör
1	egg
	salt
	ground white pepper - malen vitpeppar
	clove - kryddnejlika

Melt butter ( ...or margarine) in a pan.

Add flour and pour on the milk and allow to thicken. Simmer approximately four (4) minutes.

Grind the lard (pork fat) and mix into the simmering liquid and allow to melt.

Grind liver once rough cut and once with a finer cut.
Add the anchovy during the second grinding process.

Peel onion and chop (mince). Fry onion easy, or grind together with anchovy and liver.

Chill this mixture once the lard has melted and dissolved into the warm liquid.
Add the ground liver, onion, egg, salt and spices.

Use butter or margarine to "grease" one long and narrow oven pan.

You can use foil inside the pan instead of butter.

Put some thin slices of pork fat in the bottom and along sides.

Pour in the mixture (batter) and cover with good oven proof aluminum foil.

Bake in water at approximately 175 degrees Centigrade for about one (1) hour.

-Wait for it to get cold, before taking it out of the pan.