Homemade Liverwurst

Braunschweiger

Preparation info
  • Makes

    2

    standard-sized loaves .
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
I Hear America Cooking

By Betty Fussell

Published 1986

  • About

Bologna still carries its Italian origin in its name, but liverwurst has forgotten its origin in Braunschweig, in the Brunswick province of Germany. “Liverwurst” is a dishearteningly literal translation from the German of the pork liver of which it is made, a word that German immigrants introduced into American English in 1869. If your liverwurst experience has been limited to supermarket cold meat counters, it’s worth making this lovely German pork-liver pâté to eat fresh. As with any pâté