Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Lardons may be prepared from different cuts of pork, including pork belly and fatback, or from cured cuts such as bacon [3] or salt pork.According to food writer Regina Schrambling, when the lardon is salt-cured but not smoked in the style of American bacon, "the flavor comes through cleanly, more like ham but richer because the meat is from the belly of the pig, not the leg". [4]
Bacon is often used for a cooking technique called barding consisting of laying or wrapping strips of bacon or other fats over a roast to provide additional fat to a lean piece of meat. It is often used for roast game birds , and is a traditional method of preparing beef filet mignon , which is wrapped in strips of bacon before cooking.
Macon is prepared in a similar manner to bacon, with the meat being either dry cured with large quantities of salt or wet cured with brine and then smoked. The name macon is a portmanteau word of mutton and bacon. In South Africa the term is also used for other bacon substitutes, including ones made from beef. [2]
Salt pork that contains a significant amount of meat, resembling standard side bacon, is known as "streak o' lean." [ 6 ] It is traditionally popular in the Southeastern United States . As a stand-alone food product, it is typically boiled to remove much of the salt content and to partially cook the product, then fried until it starts to ...
3. Turkey bacon (and duck) Turkey bacon was probably the first widely-marketed pork bacon substitute. It's pretty common in most grocery stores these days.
Bacon is delicious, but only when cooked right. Avoid these 6 common mistakes to cook bacon perfectly every time. Common mistakes to avoid when making bacon, the world's most perfect food
Southerners love butter. We love sugar. But the one ingredient we prize above all others is bacon. You might even say our love for this pork product borders on biblical. And our reverence goes ...
The Slavic word "salo" or "slanina" as applied to this type of food is often translated to English as "bacon", "lard" or "fatback" in general, depending on context. Unlike bacon, salo contains more fat than lean meat and unlike lard, salo is not rendered. It is similar to Italian lardo, the main difference is that lardo is sliced for curing.