Skip to main content
Main

Fried Pig's Feet for Breakfast

Fried pig's feet are prepared by flouring and frying with bacon until browned.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Fried Pig's Feet for Breakfast

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove excess jelly from the prepared pig's feet.

  2. Roll the feet in flour.

Fry

  1. Heat a frying pan until very hot.

  2. Add the bacon and fry until crispy.

  3. Place the floured feet in the pan and fry until brown on one side.

  4. Turn the feet with a spatula and brown the other side.

Serve

  1. Remove the feet to a hot dish and serve.

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

Pig's feet
Provide the main meat and gelatinous body of the dish.
Flour
Forms a dry coating that helps the feet brown and crisp in the pan.
Bacon
Renders fat into the pan, adding savoury flavour and fat for frying.

The step that matters

Browning the floured feet. Flour coating browns through Maillard reactions only when the pan is very hot and the feet are not crowded. Too low a heat or too much moisture leaves the coating pale and soggy instead of crisp and browned.

“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.

More fried pig's feet recipes

and Ears 3 See all 11 →

You might also like

Tomato SoupTomato Soup526 recipesBrown BreadBrown Bread461 recipesMutton BrothMutton Broth292 recipesYorkshire PuddingYorkshire Pudding264 recipes