Finnish Maksa Kukuja

Total Time: 3 hrs Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 1/2 lbs calf liver (if frozen pat dry)
• 1/4 lb suet, very important
• 2 medium onions
• 1 1/4 cups oatmeal (regular not coarse)
• 1 1/4 cups graham flour, health food store
• salt and pepper
• some bread flour, to make dough pliable

Recipe

• 1 grind the first 3 ingredients with fine chopper blade. (grind onion first, and save the onion juice, in case moisture is needed.
• 2 do not add water or milk, work dough until all the flours are worked in).
• 3 add the rest of the ingredients and mix and knead with hands to make a fairly hard dough.
• 4 roll out dough to 1/8" thick. cut into squares appox 3"x 3" put finger hole in center (like a doughnut).
• 5 allow squares to dry for about 1 hour.
• 6 now, bring water to a boil in large pot.
• 7 add 1 tbl salt.
• 8 when boiling, drop squares into water. cook in boiling water for 1 hour,keep covered.
• 9 serve with lots of real butter.
• 10 note: you can remove the patties and then boil down the water to make a gravy or just serve with butter.