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To Boil Bacon

A dish of bacon boiled until cooked, served with grated bread or brown crust.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Boil Bacon

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the bacon until cooked through.

  2. Remove the skin from the bacon.

  3. Sprinkle grated bread or brown crust over the bacon before serving.

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
Provides the main meat and fat, which render and flavour the dish as it cooks.
Grated bread or brown crust
Adds a toasted, crisp topping that contrasts with the soft boiled 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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