Bacony, salty, sweet and awesome.

 

The Chef has made about a kilo of this delightful, sinful indulgence. Now, to book ahead and see if I can't get some kinda 'frequent flyer' deal happening with my cardiologist.

Is the Chef willing to share the recipe?

I have bacon jam in a jar at home - lovely stuff. 

Surprised Earle hasn't sniffed this out by now.

Is the Chef willing to share the recipe?

What he said ^

Edited July 14, 20169 yr by Dirty_vinylpusher

What he said ^

 

 

 

What he said ^

 

 

 

Oi

I said it first

https://www.google.com.au/?gws_rd=ssl#q=bacon+jam

https://www.google.com.au/?gws_rd=ssl#q=bacon+jam

We want THAT recipe, not just ANY recipe

Oh do you now ???

 

It's never good enough is it.

 

I want a divorce.

 

Oh do you now ???

 

It's never good enough is it.

 

I want a divorce.

 

Fine, but I'm keeping the collection of sink strainers and fridge magnets.

I posted a bacon jam find in Earle's thread maybe 18-24mths ago. Full of everything to stimulate every taste bud; salty, sweet, savoury, syrupy, bacony, almost religious goodness. Have never had it since. I'm with the other fools above who have asked for THAT recipe.

Otherwise, I can see a forum ban nomination coming for @@DRC for unsportsmanlike behaviour ;-)

And you can keep the belly-button lint jars too.

Surprised Earle hasn't sniffed this out by now.

I posted in the Bacon thread a couple of years ago now - brought the stuff back from the good 'ol USA

rumours of a recipe later this evening...

mega awesome bacon madness

 

This is an approximate recipe, I did it by sight so you may need to adjust the amount of vinegar added, if too sweet, add more and keep reducing. Too acidic (when almost finished) add a bit more sugar. More pepper and salt if you want more ompff. remember you have it cold or at room temp so it will appear less sweet and salty cold, stick some in the fridge and try before finishing it if you are unsure.

 

grab about 1kg brown onions and slice (with the grain)

1/2 cup veg oil

1 head of garlic sliced

1 tblspn caraway coarsely ground (or fennel seeds coarsely ground will work)

1kg bacon, slice into 1/2 cm slices

now this may sound a bit weird; 1 small can of peach pieces (approx. 300g) drain off syrup, (fruit adds texture and filler to the jam and use the left over syrup with pancakes or works with gin, mint and soda, breakfast either way really...)

2 tblspns golden syrup

1/2  bottle maple syrup (proper stuff not the 'flavoured' imposter that is just nasty!)

1 1/2 cups caster sugar

2 cups white wine vinegar

3 bay leaves

 

Black pepper (lots) and salt to taste (at end)

smoke liquid

 

Heat oil on medium heat with onions and fry until starting to caramelise. Add garlic, caraway and bacon. Cook until bacon starts to loose liquid. Add remaining ingredients, turn up heat to make it cook faster (make sure you stir often if you do this on high or it will burn, keep the heat on medium if you are going to get side tracked, you will still need to stir it just not as often...)

 

So your jam is cooking away, it will have a lot of liquid at the start but it will start to reduce and get thicker, it will reach the point where the oil will start to separate, you can take it off the heat just as this happens. If a lot of oil comes off you can add a little liquid and stir it a lot and it should incorporate back in, a little on top is not a bad think I mean it is bacon jam after all.

 

add a decent whack of black pepper and salt to taste and also if you like it smokey you can get smoke liquid from some Foodland or other gourmet stores with different types (hickory is pretty awesome). Cool and keep in the fridge.

 

The jam I made is going on scones with maple syrup butter but it would also be awesome on doughnuts as a kind of glaze with some chopped pecan or even (warmed a little) over grilled steak with chunky wedges

 

Hopefully I remembered everything! May the power of pig be with you

 

The Chef

https://www.pialligofarm.com.au/products/pialligo-bacon-jam

https://www.heb.com/product-detail/cookwell-amp-company-better-than-good-bacon-jam/1533203