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Macaroni and Bacon

A simple dish of boiled macaroni tossed with fried bacon and seasoned with red pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Macaroni and Bacon

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the bacon

  1. Fry the bacon in a skillet until crispy.

  2. Remove most of the grease from the skillet.

Make the macaroni

  1. Add the boiled macaroni to the skillet and season with red pepper.

  2. Stir until the macaroni is heated through.

Serve

  1. Pile the macaroni in the center of a platter and arrange the bacon around it.

  2. Serve hot with graham gems.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Macaroni
Forms the bulk of the dish and carries the other flavours.
Breakfast bacon
Adds salty, savoury flavour and fat that crisps in the pan.
Red pepper
Adds gentle heat and a sharper, spicy note to the macaroni.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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