Name: Bacon Cooking Instructions
Ingredients: 2 lbs smoked bacon; 1 lb unsmoked bacon or pickled pork

Bacon Cooking Instructions

Oven, in the book's wordsA gentle oven

Ingredients

2 lbs smoked bacon
1 lb unsmoked bacon or pickled pork

Directions

For smoked bacon, boil for 1 to 1.5 hours.
For unsmoked bacon or pickled pork, boil for 1 to 1.25 hours.
Adjust cooking time based on the quality of the meat and its thickness.

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

Smoked bacon: Provides the main meat and smoky flavor once boiled until tender.
Unsmoked bacon or pickled pork: Provides the main meat with a milder, less smoky flavor when boiled.

“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.