To Boil Bacon
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Soak bacon in soft water for 2 hours if it is very salty.
Place bacon in a saucepan with plenty of water.
Cook and serve
Bring the water to a gentle boil.
Once cooked, remove the skin and sprinkle finely powdered bread crumbs over the bacon.
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
- Is the main food cooked here, and its salt is partly drawn out by soaking.
- Bread crumbs
- Sprinkled over the cooked bacon, they add a light coating and a little texture.
The step that matters
Bring the water to a gentle boil. A gentle boil cooks the bacon through evenly without toughening the meat. A hard rolling boil can make the outside tough and dry while the centre is still cooking.
“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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