Name: Bacon, Cushion of
Ingredients: 7 pounds bacon; toasted bread crumbs

Bacon, Cushion of

Ingredients

7 pounds bacon
toasted bread crumbs

Directions

Place the bacon in a pot of cold water.
Simmer for about 3 hours.
Remove the bacon from the water and peel off the skin.
Cover the bacon with toasted bread crumbs.

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: Provides the main body and fat that flavors and moistens the dish as it simmers.
Toasted bread crumbs: Form a crisp, golden coating over the bacon's exposed surface.

“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.