On Wed 09 Mar 2005 07:43:49a, Doug Freyburger wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> Doug Freyburger wrote:
>>
>> > Braunschweiger and liverwurst are both basically pate with a
>> > different name on the label.
>>
>> Not exactly. All braunschweiger is liverwurst, but not all liverwurst
>> is braunschweiger.
>
> Irrelevant to the issue of whether they count as pate
> and can be used in most ways that pate can be used.
> Most pates found in stores use a liver base, some even a
> pork or beef liver base like liverwurst. Some pate
> recipes include smoke flavor, some don't, so the
> difference between specific braunschweiger and general
> liverwurst isn't effected by that point. The fact
> that pate recipes without liver exist also doesn't
> effect the issue until we get into heating the pate,
> thus the mapping from braunschweiger to pate is good
> but not complete.
>
> Many pate recipes have nice extras like herbs or wine.
> Various types of liverwurst can be moved to similar
> functionality by blending herbs or wine into them. Not
> an exact match but the OP was asking about alternate
> uses not exact matches. Various types of liverwurst
> make an okay starting point if your goal is just some
> pate rather than a very specific pate recipe.
>
> Going in the opposite direction from the initial post,
> as much as I like turkey/chicken/duck/goose liver, I
> wonder how much effort it would be to make a pate from
> them that would substitute towards use in sandwiches.
> Braunschweiger and other types of liverwurst are made
> with beef and/or pork livers, but using bird livers
> should work okay. Should be straightforward so the
> next time I see a package of bird livers on sale while
> I'm travelling for work I'll try it.

So what's your point? What is irrelevant to you may not be to someone
else. I don't consider either braunschweiger or liverwurst a pate. Both
are good, but neither is prepared in the style of a pate.

While also not a pate, chopped chicken livers are extremely easy to prepare
and make an excellent filling for sandwiches.

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Wayne Boatwright
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