Liver Butters

Many sauces, especially deeply flavored sauces for game, benefit by being finished with a compound butter prepared with the animal’s liver. Sometimes the heart and gizzard can also be used, as well as a small amount of ground juniper berries, which help reinforce the sauce’s gamy flavor. Sauces finished with liver butter have an opaque, almost muddy appearance that is sometimes startling to people used to translucent brown sauces finished with butter.