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100% Crunch Bread Recipe

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Ingredients

1/2 lb Sweet cream butter
1/2 lb Bacon cooked crisp and crumbled
1/4 Bell pepper
1 Clove garlic peeled & sliced
Crushed peppercorns to taste
2 lb Chicken livers
1/4 ts Sage
1/2 ts Dijon mustard
Dry white wine or for change try dry sherry
1 Small bay leaf
1 ts Heaping thyme
1 Pinch rosemary
1 c Chicken stock or bouillon
Salt to taste
1 lg White or yellow onion cut into 8th's
2 Stalks celery with tops cut into sections

Directions

Step #1 UTENSILS: 2 qt.
Step #2 sauce pan Colander or large strainer measuring c & spoons food processor/blender, celery, mix livers, spices, stock, onion, garlic, mixer or mixer (use your hands only if slightly Masochistic) Pate molds or buttered 9" cake pan with release or a bowl PREPARATION: In sauce pan, pepper & salt.
Step #3 Add enough wine to just cover ingredients & bring to boiling point.
Step #4 Reduce heat, cover, and simmer for about 1/2 hr.
Step #5 When done, place contents in the colander.
Step #6 Reserve the wine broth & allow it to stand & cool.
Step #7 Discard the bayleaf from the contents in the colander & allow remainder to cool for 1/2 hr.
Step #8 carefully ladel off the wine broth until the liquid containing the sediment equals 2/3 c.
Step #9 Save the clear broth in case you need more.
Step #10 Be sure to catch all the sediment because it is an important part of the recipe.
Step #11 In your food processor/blender; mix the contents of the colander, sediment broth, butter, mustard & 1/2 of the crumbled bacon.
Step #12 Process until the mixture is a smooth, soupy puree.
Step #13 Fold in remaining bacon and pour this into final mold.
Step #14 If it is too thick to pour, you need to add more broth.
Step #15 Allow pate to set in refrigerator for at least 24 hrs.
Step #16 Unmold, lightly Sprinkle top with cracked peppercorns & garnish with sliced olives & parsley.
Step #17 This recipe is an antique French farm recipe reported to be over 100 years old.
Step #18 It is a classic recipe with wonderful spices & subtle flavors.
Step #19 --.
Enjoy the 100% CRUNCH BREAD recipe