Bacon Butties

[TheDoctor]

Fresh white bread, generously buttered. Baguette, whatever roll exists around your way, or sliced.
Smoked bacon - well-cooked streaky for preference, but back is fine.
Maybe BBQ sauce, but I usually don't.

 

[mistyoptic]

YES!

Sourdough vs mother's pride
Brown vs multigrain vs white
Toasted or untoasted
Toasted on both sides or one side bagel like
Buttered vs dredged on the bacon fat in the frying pan
Fried or grilled bacon
Back bacon vs streaky
Smoked or unsmoked
Crispy or flabby
HP Sauce vs TommyK
Mayo?
To BLT on not to BLT

A bacon buttie is a multi-dimensional construct!

Heston's Version

Bacon Butty​

What do you want from a bacon sarnie?
There’s the seductive sizzle when it’s cooking. There’s that irresistible aroma that draws you in like a magnet. Then there are those delicious contrasts—smoked and unsmoked, crisp and soft, savoury and a touch of sweetness.
I’ve taken inspiration from Mrs. Beeton for an extra textural contrast. Included in her Cookery and Household Management is a recipe for Toast Sandwiches, in which a piece of toast is the filling between two slices of buttered bread.
She claims it ‘will be found very tempting to the appetite of an invalid.’ I don’t know about that but having both bread and toast adds another layer of crispness and softness that will hopefully be found tempting to everyone, invalid or not.
MAKES 2
4 rashers unsmoked back bacon
6 rashers smoked streaky bacon
2 tbsp oil
20g salted butter
4 slices of white bread
For the sauce
2 tbsp French’s mustard
2 tbsp tomato ketchup
2 tbsp mayonnaise
Place the bacon rashers between two sheets of baking paper. Use a rolling pin to roll the bacon until very thin, then discard the paper and slice each rasher in half.
Heat the oil in a large frying pan, add all the bacon rashers and fry, turning frequently, until cooked through and crispy. Remove the back bacon rashers and set aside, allowing the remaining streaky rashers to fry a little longer until crisp and caramelized.
In the meantime, for the sauce, mix the mustard, ketchup and mayonnaise together in a small bowl.
Butter two of the slices of bread and set aside.
To assemble, toast the other two slices of bread, butter them and top with the bacon. Sandwich together with the slices of untoasted, buttered bread (so you have two sandwiches, each with one side bread and one side toast).
Serve immediately, with the sauce on the side to use as a dip between each bite.

Typical pretentious Heston b*ll*x.

I’m surprised he doesn’t use a plasma torch to make the toast.

More seriously, oil has no place in this. If you’re frying the bacon then use some bacon fat reserved from a previous occasion

 

[Dave7]

BURN THE WITCH!!!!!

Just as you are going to bed tonight I want you to think of bacon butties oozing with brown sauce and a large slice of stilton cheese on it.

 

[Dave7]

My breakfast today will be wholemeal barm, well buttered with lean bacon and a fried egg...... A truly yummy butty.

 

[cookiemonster]

Bacon, crusty roll, butter, that's it.

None of this blasphemous brown/red sauce.

 

[Baldy]

YES!

Sourdough vs mother's pride
Brown vs multigrain vs white
Toasted or untoasted
Toasted on both sides or one side bagel like
Buttered vs dredged on the bacon fat in the frying pan
Fried or grilled bacon
Back bacon vs streaky
Smoked or unsmoked
Crispy or flabby
HP Sauce vs TommyK
Mayo?
To BLT on not to BLT

A bacon buttie is a multi-dimensional construct!

Heston's Version

Bacon Butty​

What do you want from a bacon sarnie?
There’s the seductive sizzle when it’s cooking. There’s that irresistible aroma that draws you in like a magnet. Then there are those delicious contrasts—smoked and unsmoked, crisp and soft, savoury and a touch of sweetness.
I’ve taken inspiration from Mrs. Beeton for an extra textural contrast. Included in her Cookery and Household Management is a recipe for Toast Sandwiches, in which a piece of toast is the filling between two slices of buttered bread.
She claims it ‘will be found very tempting to the appetite of an invalid.’ I don’t know about that but having both bread and toast adds another layer of crispness and softness that will hopefully be found tempting to everyone, invalid or not.
MAKES 2
4 rashers unsmoked back bacon
6 rashers smoked streaky bacon
2 tbsp oil
20g salted butter
4 slices of white bread
For the sauce
2 tbsp French’s mustard
2 tbsp tomato ketchup
2 tbsp mayonnaise
Place the bacon rashers between two sheets of baking paper. Use a rolling pin to roll the bacon until very thin, then discard the paper and slice each rasher in half.
Heat the oil in a large frying pan, add all the bacon rashers and fry, turning frequently, until cooked through and crispy. Remove the back bacon rashers and set aside, allowing the remaining streaky rashers to fry a little longer until crisp and caramelized.
In the meantime, for the sauce, mix the mustard, ketchup and mayonnaise together in a small bowl.
Butter two of the slices of bread and set aside.
To assemble, toast the other two slices of bread, butter them and top with the bacon. Sandwich together with the slices of untoasted, buttered bread (so you have two sandwiches, each with one side bread and one side toast).
Serve immediately, with the sauce on the side to use as a dip between each bite.

Pretentious bo****ks.

Any old bacon,
Any old bread,
Butter or marg,
Put it all together and eat it.
Job done.

 

[vickster]

Pain aux raisins, no bacon

 

[vickster]

My wife read somewhere that the average intake on xmas day is 10,000 kcals.
Not sure if that includes bacon butties.

And the rest depending on how much booze and Quality Street!

 

[Jameshow]

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Butter .... Go get them drago - heretics - next they be wanting us having disc brakes!🤣🤣🤣

 

[Jameshow]

And the rest depending on how much booze and Quality Street!

No calories in booze and quality street apart from the toffee ones which I don't eat. Simples!🤣🤣

 

[Jody]

Nuked with the fat taken off and on a soft white breadcake.

Tom sauce with no butter

 

[Gunk]

My wife read somewhere that the average intake on xmas day is 10,000 kcals.
Not sure if that includes bacon butties.

That sounds exaggerated, most reports say around 5000-6000

 

[vickster]

That sounds exaggerated, most reports say around 5000-6000

That's more likely the main meal I believe, not the whole day (and an average, depends how many roasties and pigs in blanket are consumed)!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Just as you are going to bed tonight I want you to think of bacon butties oozing with brown sauce and a large slice of stilton cheese on it.

I see that you are in league with the Grand Witch Drago and are invoking evil demons via cheese

can;t see any other point in stilton unless it invokes demons - I mean, why would you eat mould unless it was to contact demons and the like????

 

[Dogtrousers]

Bacon, fairly well done so some of the fat hardens but not to American brittleness - it still needs to actually be bacon not some kind of crunchy meat snack. Bread fried on one side in bacon fat. Brown sauce. I'm not terribly fussed about what kind of bacon, happy with back or streaky smoked or not. In fact I'd probably still be happy with two pieces of fried bread and some brown sauce. It's the fried bread that does it for me.