[Sca-cooks] OT/OOP NYT Article on Math Formula For the Perfect Bacon Sandwich...

[Phil Troy / G.Tacitus Adamantius]

On Apr 11, 2007, at 10:38 AM, Pixel, Goddess and Queen wrote:

>
> Random actual period food reference involving bacon:
>
> Do we have any evidence whatsoever for baking bread with bacon  
> inside it?
> I make bacon-onion buns for camping events, but I haven't been able to
> find any evidence that they're at all period. They're made with a  
> brioche
> dough and filled with diced onions and bacon cooked together until
> caramelized. [I find I am more likely to eat if it doesn't involve
> anything that might look like prep.]
>
> I know Platina talks about baking small birds or cheese in dough.  
> Can we
> logically extrapolate to bacon, or would that be too much of a leap?

Then there are the various Harpestrang "Icelandic chicken" variants.  
In that case the birds are essentially barded with bacon, sage  
leaves, and dough, IIRC. I believe there are also bird pasties in the  
same source which call for bacon diced to the size of peas. Again, IIRC.

How much of a stretch you'd consider these dishes without the bird  
element, or even if they're breadlike or bunlike, is up to you, though.

Adamantius





"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la  
brioche!" / "If there's no bread, you have to say, let them eat cake!"
     -- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,  
"Confessions", 1782

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