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RElishing Rashers of Bacon

Bread crust–coated bacon slices toasted until browned.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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RElishing Rashers of Bacon

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the cold bacon into slices about ¼ inch thick.

  2. Grate the crust of bread and coat both sides of the bacon slices with it.

Cook

  1. Place the bacon in a cheese toaster and brown one side for about 3 minutes.

  2. Turn the bacon and brown the other side.

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 fat and savory meaty flavor, and its fat helps the slices brown.
Crust of bread
Grated into crumbs, it forms a coating that adds a crisp, browned surface to the bacon.

“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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