Receta Mom’s Warm Bacon Dressing
Whether it was on leaf lettuce straight from the garden, baby spinach from the grocery store, or straight from the cast iron skillet on the stove, I loved my my mom’s warm bacon dressing. The sweet and sour dressing becomes opaque and thick after cooling down…I can still eat it by the spoonful. Although a rather unorthodox technique, I remember my mom using both flour and corn starch to thicken the dressing. She did not like using cornstarch as a thickener as much as flour, but I do not think she liked the result of using just flour…this was her solution. Therefore, I use both also. Once again, I find myself composing a recipe from my memory of watching her make it because she rarely measured ingredients or used a recipe. (Full disclosure: I usually only measure all ingredients when cooking for A Simple Home Cook… I measure when baking, but not cooking).
Recipe: Mom’s Warm Bacon Dressing
Ingredients:
- 6 – 8 slices of bacon
- 3 – 4 Tbsp. grease from bacon
- 1 1/2 – 2 Tbsp. flour (I prefer Wondra)
- 1/3 to 1/2 c. cider vinegar
- 1 c. granulated sugar
- 1 c. water
- 1 1/2 tsp. corn starch
- salt, to taste (if desired)
- pepper, to taste (if desired)
Instructions:
Fry bacon in a large, heavy skillet.
Remove bacon and set aside.
Drain grease from skillet to measure or just estimate how many tablespoons of grease you have. Add about 1/2 the amount of flour as grease to the skillet.
Cook for about 1 minute while stirring with a whisk or fork.
Slowly add vinegar and water while continuing to stir.
Add sugar and cook until sugar has dissolved.
In a small bowl or cup, add corn starch then several spoonfuls of the warm vinegar mixture to make a slurry.
Slowly add slurry to the vinegar mixture cooking in the skillet while stirring constantly.
Add bacon broken in small pieces (if not cooked in small pieces) to the skillet mixture.
Cook until dressing is near/at boiling and begins to thicken.
Pour warm/hot dressing over lettuce, spinach, potatoes, etc.
Copyright © 2013. Recipe by Paula, A Simple Home Cook.