I remember my great grandfather making us redneck bacon candy at his farm in Paducah Kentucky when I was a kid. Yes, it was with farm raised fresh bacon. Here's my modified single serving version, I hope you like it.
Ingredients:
- bacon, in this version I use microwaveable single serving packaged style
- brown sugar or light brown sugar
- cayenne pepper
- cinnamon
Step 1: Open the bag of bacon, remove 2 strips of bacon and place it on wax paper
Step 2: Mix one heaping table spoon of brown sugar with a small amount of cayenne pepper the first time. I like heat and for myself do 1 level teaspoon vs. what you see here. It should look like this for light heat.
Step 3: Spray the top side of bacon with olive oil cooking spray and spread the mix onto the bacon. Then use the bottom of a tablespoon to press the mix into the bacon.
Step 4: Mix 1 heaping tablespoon of brown sugar with 1 teaspoon of cinnamon. Apply that mix to the two other strips of bacon using the same method. Fortunately I have this cinnamon essence spice grinder that has both sugar and cinnamon combined so I just used that.
Step 5: Add an additional paper towel to the existing one in the plastic, place the bacon back in the plastic, cover it back up and place a wet paper towel over it to hold it together. Place it in the nuker and cook to liking. I nuked this batch for 4:30 minutes to get this outcome in our microwave but that will vary. It's all about cooking it enough to get that caramelization where the brown sugar and bacon grease meet. A much easier task with version 1.0 for a large quantity of bacon under the broiler but this is my single serving version.
Step 6: Lay it on a fresh paper towel first to soak up some of the grease. Cut it in 1/2 for single bits and eat.
Step 7: Clean up all the evidence before anyone gets home.
More family recipes to come, my mom raised me on some out of sight dishes but I must warn she is from Kentucky where flavor trumps calorie counting every time. If you benefited from me sharing this an upvote would be greatly appreciated. Thanks