Coffee Brown Sugar Bacon

Cloud · 02-07-2009, 06:10 PM

Boy, does this look good. I bet it'd make even turkey bacon be excellent. Given so many bacon aficionados here, I immediately thought of The Cellar when I saw this recipe.

From Sunset

Beestie · 02-07-2009, 07:43 PM

I got a big kick out of the "per serving" nutritional information.

Foolish author. Then entire pound is one serving.

At least for me.

Aliantha · 02-07-2009, 07:45 PM

I can't believe you lot eat bacon and sugar in the same meal. It really is weird to me.

Beestie · 02-07-2009, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Aliantha

I can't believe you lot eat bacon and sugar in the same meal. It really is weird to me.

You need to add whiskey to the list.

Cloud · 02-08-2009, 12:43 AM

they don't have sugar cured ham in Australia?

Sundae · 02-08-2009, 04:46 AM

Whaaa?!
Honey Roast Ham, yes.
Sugar... ham... what?!

Okay, prolly the same thing.
I just like messing with you because you don't accept that suet can be a valid ingredient in a dessert

Aliantha · 02-08-2009, 04:11 PM

You can get honey roasted ham here, but it's not really the same as coating your bacon in sugar then baking it. for one thing, the sucrose to meat ratio is waaaaay different.

Urbane Guerrilla · 02-08-2009, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Aliantha

I can't believe you lot eat bacon and sugar in the same meal. It really is weird to me.

Um... breakfast?? Bacon on the plate, oatmeal in the bowl, and what's on the oatmeal?

Aliantha · 02-08-2009, 08:01 PM

Usually nutmeg and sugar...sometimes cinnamon, sometimes some dried fruit. Just depends.

Urbane Guerrilla · 02-08-2009, 08:12 PM

Yeah. I won't say brown sugar is the only topping for hot cereal, but it's my perennial favorite, albeit reduced now to accommodate my diabetes. A small sprinkle for its flavor and the greater part of the actual sweetening done with Splenda at least seems like virtuousness.

Aliantha · 02-08-2009, 08:14 PM

We usually use raw or white sugar for cereals. Brown is far too sweet.

Urbane Guerrilla · 02-08-2009, 08:52 PM

Hm. For just sweetness, brown and white stack up about the same for me. Brown's advantage is in its rich molasses flavor. I often whip up brown sugar out of white and molasses drizzled in, in the chopping attachment to my blender. It's not the most efficient such mixer but it is the only tool I have that answers at all. It has to be sulphured or blackstrap molasses, not the light variety, for the true brown sugar flavor to come through.

I've tried Mexican style sugarloafs, called piloncillos in the vernacular. I haven't been incredibly wowed, for these sugarloafs are designed to stay solid, not taste like brown sugar. I bust the loaves up with channel-lock pliers because bashing them with a mallet gets bits all over. Then the busted pieces go in my coffee grinder to be reduced (mostly) to granules, revealing a blond sugar -- dishwater blond, darker than demerara, but not a patch on what I'm told is the German style, with a lot of molasses, mixed to where it's just short of sticky. Keep that stuff tightly covered or it will cake and you'll have to chip it out of the container.

kerosene · 02-12-2009, 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Keep that stuff tightly covered or it will cake and you'll have to chip it out of the container.

Would this situation be like the hardened brown sugar you get at the store? If so, put a piece of bread in with the brown sugar and in a day or so it will be nice and soft again.

Pie · 02-12-2009, 03:40 PM

You can also nuke (microwave) the sugar -- it will soften. Temporarily.

TheMercenary · 02-12-2009, 07:37 PM

That looks good Cloud.

02-07-2009, 06:10 PM	#1
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	Coffee Brown Sugar Bacon Boy, does this look good. I bet it'd make even turkey bacon be excellent. Given so many bacon aficionados here, I immediately thought of The Cellar when I saw this recipe. From Sunset __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

02-07-2009, 07:43 PM	#2
Beestie -◊\|≡·∙■·∙≡\|◊- Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Parts unknown. Posts: 4,081	I got a big kick out of the "per serving" nutritional information. Foolish author. Then entire pound is one serving. At least for me. __________________ ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦ Last edited by Beestie; 02-07-2009 at 07:50 PM.

02-07-2009, 07:45 PM	#3
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	I can't believe you lot eat bacon and sugar in the same meal. It really is weird to me. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

02-08-2009, 12:43 AM	#5
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	they don't have sugar cured ham in Australia? __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

02-08-2009, 04:46 AM	#6
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Whaaa?! Honey Roast Ham, yes. Sugar... ham... what?! Okay, prolly the same thing. I just like messing with you because you don't accept that suet can be a valid ingredient in a dessert __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

02-08-2009, 04:11 PM	#7
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	You can get honey roasted ham here, but it's not really the same as coating your bacon in sugar then baking it. for one thing, the sucrose to meat ratio is waaaaay different. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

02-08-2009, 08:01 PM	#9
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	Usually nutmeg and sugar...sometimes cinnamon, sometimes some dried fruit. Just depends. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

02-08-2009, 08:12 PM	#10
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Yeah. I won't say brown sugar is the only topping for hot cereal, but it's my perennial favorite, albeit reduced now to accommodate my diabetes. A small sprinkle for its flavor and the greater part of the actual sweetening done with Splenda at least seems like virtuousness. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

02-08-2009, 08:14 PM	#11
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	We usually use raw or white sugar for cereals. Brown is far too sweet. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

02-08-2009, 08:52 PM	#12
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Hm. For just sweetness, brown and white stack up about the same for me. Brown's advantage is in its rich molasses flavor. I often whip up brown sugar out of white and molasses drizzled in, in the chopping attachment to my blender. It's not the most efficient such mixer but it is the only tool I have that answers at all. It has to be sulphured or blackstrap molasses, not the light variety, for the true brown sugar flavor to come through. I've tried Mexican style sugarloafs, called piloncillos in the vernacular. I haven't been incredibly wowed, for these sugarloafs are designed to stay solid, not taste like brown sugar. I bust the loaves up with channel-lock pliers because bashing them with a mallet gets bits all over. Then the busted pieces go in my coffee grinder to be reduced (mostly) to granules, revealing a blond sugar -- dishwater blond, darker than demerara, but not a patch on what I'm told is the German style, with a lot of molasses, mixed to where it's just short of sticky. Keep that stuff tightly covered or it will cake and you'll have to chip it out of the container. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

02-12-2009, 03:40 PM	#14
Pie Gone and done Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 4,808	You can also nuke (microwave) the sugar -- it will soften. Temporarily. __________________ per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.

02-12-2009, 07:37 PM	#15
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	That looks good Cloud. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

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