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Tomatoes and Bacon

A simple dish of sliced tomatoes and bacon, fried and seasoned.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Tomatoes and Bacon

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Slice the bacon thinly.

  2. Skin the tomatoes and slice them thickly.

Cook

  1. Fry the bacon. Keep it hot.

  2. Fry the tomatoes. Season to taste.

  3. Arrange them around the bacon.

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

Tomatoes
Provide moisture and acidity, and soften and brown slightly when fried.
Bacon
Provides fat and savoury flavour that coats the tomatoes as they cook.

“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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