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Calves Liver and Onion Casserole

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This is what we had for tea last night. OH had not had Calves liver before but I think he is a convert.  I tend to use Pigs liver for this type of casserole but they did not have any so could not get this.  This Calves liver though made an excellent substitution. I basically fried off in some seasoned flour the liver cut into regular sized pieces very gently and then did the same with some streaky bacon (the bacon I cut into small pieces after cooking).   I then emptied everything into a large casserole dish and added a couple of sliced carrots, a large onion finely sliced, a little fresh leek also finely sliced.  I then added in some Beef stock, mixed herbs, white pepper, redcurrant jelly, (I added water to the frying pan and bought to the boil to use the meat juices and then emptied it into the casserole dish) and some Marigold powder.  Everything was mixed in and the lid put on and cooked at Gas Mark 5 for a couple of hours.  Half way through I adde...