Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

3 lb Liver
8 lb Potatoes, sliced
1/4 Slab bacon
1/4 c Salt
2 1/2 c Graham flour
1/2 c Buttermilk
2 1/4 c Flour

Make bags out of flour sacks. This recipe will fit into four 6 x 12"
bags. Grind liver with potatoes, using a medium blade. Cut bacon into
little pieces. Mix meats, potatoes and other ingredients in a very
large bowl. When evenly combined, pack mixture into damp bags. Tie
shut. Boil bags in water to cover for two hours. Tie shut. Remove
from water and cool. Store in refrigerator. to use, cut bag off meat,
slice meat and serve.

"This may have been one of the first take along "mountain" foods.
Some deer hunters would take this out in the woods with them for
food, as it was a complete meal - better than beef jerky! Many of the
recipes in this collection did not contain amounts or oven
temperatures. I have typed them in as they appear in the book, typos
and all.

Depression Era Recipes Patricia R. Wagner ISBN 0-934860-55-6 Entered
by Carolyn Shaw 5-95
Submitted By CAROLYN SHAW On 05-23-95

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