[Sca-cooks] Real bacon

[Sue Clemenger]

You mean, like a custard sauce? I don't think we do it that often with pies.
If anything, I'd thing the US equivalent would be whipped cream, or 
<<shudder>> that fake, non-dairy frozen cr at p.  Those you see pretty 
often, either as a side garnish (i.e., add your own), or as a topping 
covering the entire pie.  Or ice cream.  That, too, especially with warm 
fruit pies.
Oddly enough, though, I'm making a big old pan of apple crumble tonight 
for a potluck tomorrow, and I'm using a recipe from a recent newspaper 
article.  It will be served with a vanilla custard sauce (2 c. light 
cream, 6! egg yolks, some vanilla, and not too much sugar, IIRC).
I'd imagine the bacon thing varies regionally, like hams.  Some are 
sugar-cured (that's the kind I'm most familiar with), but I understand 
that other parts of the US do salt-cured hams.  At least, folks on the 
list have mentioned them (not something I've actually ever had, I think...)
--maire, culinarily deprived westerner (small w...I actually live in NW 
Artemisia)

Jessica Tiffin wrote:


> Well, I can throw into the mix the experience of a friend of mine (i.e. 
> a fellow South African) who spent 6 months in the US and returned 
> frothing in frustration because, according to her, all American bacon is 
> _sweet_.  South African bacon, you may gather from this, is not sweet at 
> all, but salty and tangy, often smoked.  I don't know where UK bacon 
> fits into the whole thing, but I suspect we may follow that tradition 
> rather than the US one.
> 
> (Oh, and she also wanted to know what's with the USA and the total lack 
> of custard.  As in pre-made custard for having with apple pie.  We can 
> buy it by the carton here - sweet and slightly plastic and not a patch 
> on the real thing, but with its own obnoxious charm.  Did San Francisco 
> simply have a dearth when she was living there, or are Americans simply 
> not custard-conscious??)
> 
> yrs in comparative culinary anthropology,
> JdH
> 
> Baroness Jehanne de Huguenin (Jessica Tiffin) * Drachenwald Chronicler
> Shire of Adamastor, Cape Town, South Africa