Name: Bacon and Eggs
Ingredients: 4 slices of bacon; 2 eggs

Bacon and Eggs

Ingredients

4 slices of bacon
2 eggs

Directions

Cook the bacon

Cook the bacon in a skillet over medium heat until crispy.
Remove the bacon and crack the eggs into the same skillet.

Cook and serve

Cook the eggs to your desired doneness.
Serve the bacon alongside the eggs.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Bacon: Renders fat into the skillet and crisps, adding salty, savoury flavour and browning.
Eggs: Set as they heat, providing the main protein structure and a rich, creamy texture.

“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.