Brochettes (Assorted Skewers of Liver or Sweetbreads)

Ingredients

• principal element: calf's
• cooked mushrooms
• lean bacon
• or lean ham
• butter
• Duxelles
• breadcrumbs
• Beurre maître-d'hôtel

Instructions

1. Choose the principal element — calf's, pig's or lamb's liver, chicken livers, or calf's or lamb's sweetbreads — and the auxiliary elements: mushrooms cut in escalopes, small squares of blanched lean bacon or of lean ham.
2. When the principal element is liver, cut it in escalopes and sauté it in butter.
3. Roll the principal element and its accompaniments in a stiff Duxelles.
4. Thread them alternately on ring skewers and breadcrumb them.
5. Put the brochettes on the grill and finish the cooking over a low fire, for the elements that were only seized or blanched.
6. Serve on a half-melted Beurre maître-d'hôtel, or on a light sauce harmonising with the principal element.