Hi,

I made Ardennes pate today. I used german brand "LAY Gewürze" spice mixture for it. Added some pickled green pepper by myself. Made about 7 pounds total. If anybody interested in recipe, I will translate it to English.

I'm not sure what it is, but it's probably better than Spam. I'd appreciate the recipe in English, my Czech is a little rusty.

Recipe:

For 10 kg total: (22 lbs)

4 kg of pork jowl (8.8 lbs)
3 kg of pork belly (6.6 lbs)
2 kg of pork liver (you can use venison liver here, 4.4 lbs)
1 kg of hot broth (from boiling of pork meat above, 2.2 lbs)


170 g of "Butcher salt" (contain about 0.5 % of NaNO2, 2623 grain)

500 g of "spice mixture" (1.1 lbs)

Let the liver in fridge to cool.

Cut meat to pieces which can be later processed through meat grinder. Boil meat about 30 minutes, it must NOT be boiled to too soft.

Remove meat and let it cool a little. Grind (4-5 mm holes ~ 0.16") cold liver and warm (not hot) meat. Liver first, meat will "clean" the grinder.

Mix it a little, take about 1/3 of mixture out and "whip" it with butcher cutter or just hand blender. I added pickled green pepper here.

Now put all together again, add butcher salt, spice and broth and mix well.

When mixed, put into clean canning jars, clean the jars contact area with paper towel first and with paper towel with some alcohol again and put lids on that.

Pasterize 1 hour at 72C, 162 Fahrenheit (1 hour for up to 2 lbs jars, 2 hours for 4 lbs etc.). Keep temp just between 158 and 167.

Cool it down in cold water. Put into fridge. Will be good at least 1/2 year.

Jiri

They had pate at the shops in France this weekend. I didn't have the courage to buy it, I hear good things.

It requires bread, and we are trying not to eat bread.

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Originally posted by Big Wonderful Wyoming:
They had pate at the shops in France this weekend. I didn't have the courage to buy it, I hear good things.

It requires bread, and we are trying not to eat bread.

I don't understand completely.

Why no courage to buy it?
Why not to eat bread?

Jiri

It's American thing
Seems fashionable not to eat bread as not to gain weight and bread also means bad food
I have encountered it quite often here and for the life of me, I'll never get it
But each to their own
Pate is kinda liverwurst, only better

Yes exactly.

This looks awesome!