Pig Candy | Bacon candy recipe

 I discovered this recipe through the Kicthy Kicthen  and felt compelled to repost it!

Ingredients for 4:

8 strips thin cut Bacon (hickory smoked bacon was a wonderful maple flavor already within it)

1 cup Golden Brown Sugar.
½ teaspoon Cayenne Pepper (Also know as Guinea spice).

Directions:

Turn the oven on to 350 F.

Meanwhile, blend the sugar and pepper together in a bowl. Taste it. If it’s too spicy, add more sugar, not spicy enough, add more cayenne. 

However, the spice does become a little more pronounced after being cooked, so be aware of that. 

Lay the bacon on a cooling rack placed over a baking pan lined with aluminum foil (these means minimal clean up!). 

Cover each slice of bacon with the brown sugar mixture.

It should be an even layer, thick enough so that you cannot see the bacon through it (about 1/8 or ¼ of an inch). 

Place the bacon in the oven for about 10 minutes, or until the sugar is completely browned, and the bacon has curls at the edges and appears mostly cooked. 

Remove the bacon from the oven and flip.

Cover the bacon with the rest of the brown sugar mixture, and pop back in the oven for another 4-6 minutes, or until the bacon appears fully cooked, like crunchy, but not burnt. 

If the bacon seems underdone, just leave in the oven for a minute or two more.

Let the bacon cool on the rack for at least 15 minutes to let the sugar harden a bit before you start cutting the pieces. 

I find it’s easiest to use a pair of kitchen scissors and cut the pieces over the serving bowl. 

Serve it up with the libation of your choice and enjoy!

Heston Hits the High Street

Heston Blumenthal has become commercial; who'd had thought it eh? 

Heston's Tea Smoked Salmon

With such creations as Mock Turtle Soup, Egg and Bacon Ice cream and Snail Porridge at his Maidenhead based restaurant the Fat Duck, 

the last words you would use to describe 

Heston's cuisine is mainstream. 

However after appearing as the face of Waitrose and teaming up with Delia Smith 

to create original recipes for the super market, 

Heston has created his own range of products available in store 

-Heston Blumenthal has been a food ambassador for Waitrose since spring 2010. 

Mustard Ice Cream Available from £2.79

Such delights available are Mustard Savoury Ice Cream, Beef Ale & Kombu (Seaweed) Pie, Vanilla Mayonnaise and Tea Smoked Salmon. 

Products are available from £2.79, 

meaning everyone can enjoy some of Hestons creativity at home without breaking the bank (without forking out £160 per person at the Fat Duck).