To Boll Bacon
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
If the bacon is very salty, soak it in soft water for 2 hours before cooking.
Cook
Place the bacon in a saucepan with plenty of water and bring to a gentle boil.
Cook for 1 to 1.25 hours for 2-3 pounds, or 1 hour and 40 minutes for larger pieces.
Finish
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
- Provides the main meat and fat, which softens and becomes tender as it simmers.
- Bread crumbs
- Finely powdered crumbs sprinkled on top add a light coating texture to the cooked bacon.
The step that matters
Soaking very salty bacon. Salt cured into bacon is drawn out slowly by soaking in soft water. Skipping this step leaves the meat overly salty once it has simmered and concentrated its flavour.
“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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