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Sashebs of Bacon

A dish of bacon slices fried or baked, served hot, with bread squares fried in bacon fat.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Sashebs of Bacon

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Fry, toast, or bake the bacon slices until hot.

  2. Serve the bacon immediately in a hot-water dish.

  3. Fry the squares of bread in the bacon fat until golden brown.

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

Bacon
Provides fat for frying the bread and savoury flavour for the dish.
Bread
Becomes crisp and golden when fried in bacon fat, giving a crunchy 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.

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