Subject: RECIPE: Mushroom-bacon pate'
From: [email-masked] (Terry Grevstad)
Date: 3 Jul 88 20:32:00 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.gourmand

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.RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE PATE-1 A "24 Nov 87" 1988
.RZ "MUSHROOM-BACON PATE" "PARTY PATE WITHOUT LIVER"
This is heavenly stuff for a buffet, and for those people who love to
munch, but hate liver pate.  We found it in a magazine some years ago.
The magazine has long since been forgotten, but this I know by heart!
.IH "1 large loaf"
.IG "2 lbs" "fresh mushrooms," "1 kg"
chopped very fine
.IG "\(12 lb" "bacon" "250 g"
(or more, to taste)
.IG "2/3 cup" "onion," "150 g"
chopped very fine
.IG "2/3 cup" "celery," "100 g"
chopped very fine
.IG "8 oz" "cream cheese," "250 g"
at room temperature
.IG "4" "eggs"
.IG "\(12 cup" "parsley," "30 g"
chopped very fine
.IG "2 cups" "dry bread crumbs" "250 g"
.IG "1 tsp" "salt" "5 ml"
.IG "1 tsp" "dried rosemary" "5 ml"
.IG "1 tsp" "dried oregano" "5 ml"
.IG "\(14 tsp" "ground black pepper" "1 ml"
.PH
.SK 1
Fry the bacon and crumble it as fine as possible. Reserve some of the grease.
.SK 2
Chop the mushrooms, onion, celery, and parsley as fine as possible.
A food processor works best, but you can do it by hand if need be.
.SK 3
Saut\z\(aae the onion and celery in the bacon grease
until soft, then remove from the grease, and drain.
.SK 4
Meanwhile, beat the cream cheese slightly, and then beat in the eggs.
Add all other ingredients to the eggs/cheese mixture. Mix thoroughly.
.SK 5
Grease a large loaf pan or two small, line with foil, and then grease the foil.
Pat the mixture into the loaf pan and cover loosely with foil.  Bake
for 1\(12 hours at
.TE 400 200 .
.SK 6
Let cool completely before serving.
.NX
This pate is actually best when
refrigerated before serving.  Serve with crackers, or with bread cut into
shapes with cookie cutters.
.PP
American bacon is called "smoked back bacon" in many other places.
.PP
To make this a more elegant buffet dish, garnish the top with a thin layer
of aspic.
.SH RATING
.I Difficulty:
easy if you have a food processor.
.I Time:
20 minutes preparation, several hours baking and cooling.
.I Precision:
Approximate measurement OK.
.WR
Terry Grevstad
Network Research Corporation, Oxnard, Calif., USA
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