Grimod’s Gratin

Name: Grimod’s Gratin
Yield: serves 4-6
Ingredients: salt and freshly ground black pepper; 12 oz dry macaroni; 6 oz block Parmesan – freshly grated; 3 oz butter plus a little for greasing; 4 oz peeled and diced parsnip; 4 oz peeled and diced turnip; 6 oz peeled and diced carrot; 4 oz trimmed and chopped celery; 1 lb chopped raw chicken livers – cleaned; 8 oz trimmed and sliced leek; big pinch ground allspice; big pinch ground cinnamon

Preparation info

serves
4-6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Independent Cook

By Jeremy Round

Published 1988

About

A hearty composite gratin, like lasagna or moussaka, of the type that cookery books used to label ‘family suppers’. It is adapted from a peculiar eighteenth-century gourmand, Grimod de la Reynière’s, potage à la camerani.

Ingredients

3 oz butter plus a little for greasing
salt and freshly ground black pepper
6 oz peeled a

Side dish
October

Method

Melt the butter in a large, heavy saucepan. Add all the vegetables and cook, partly covered, for about 30 minutes, stirring from time to time. Add the livers, a lot of black pepper, a little salt, the allspice and cinnamon about 10 minutes before the end of cooking. The vegetables should be almost tender and the liver cooked through. Boil off any excess liquid.

Boil the pasta in salted