Name: Bacon Grilled
Ingredients: 1 lb bacon; 2 rounds of bread

Bacon Grilled

Ingredients

1 lb bacon
2 rounds of bread

Directions

Prepare the bacon

Cut the bacon into very thin slices, removing the rind and any rusty parts.

Cook and assemble

Grill the bacon, turning it several times until cooked.
Dip the rounds of bread in water for a second.
Fry the bread in bacon fat or dripping until golden.
Pile the grilled bacon on top of the fried bread.

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

Bacon: Supplies the savory meat and fat that flavour the sandwich and crisp when grilled.
Bread: Provides the base that absorbs fat and browns to a golden, crisp surface when fried.

“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.