[Sca-cooks] Rasher was Re: OOP 'fredo sauce????

[Decker, Terry D.]

Rasher is also used to describe a serving of broiled or fried slices of
bacon.  In this context it is usually 3 or 4 slices, but I have met at least
one fellow whose idea of a rasher started at a pound.

Bear


> > Ok Drake- ante up: please translate 'rashers'? Slices? Big
> chunks? Plates
> > worth?
>
> A "rasher" of bacon is one slice. According to Merriam-Webster:
>
> rash=B7er
> Etymology: perhaps from obsolete rash to cut, from Middle
> English rashen
> Date: 1592
> : a thin slice of bacon or ham broiled or fried; also : a
> portion consistin=
> g
> of several such slices
>
> Avraham