Bacon

What full English breakfast would be complete without a couple of rashers of good dry cured bacon? Each week we build ourselves up to our favourite breakfast of the week. Sunday morning full English.

Bacon of course is one of the main ingredients, so it is well worth while buying a good quality bacon. None of this supermarket rubbish that is pumped full of water, salt and food colouring. Yuk. A decent breakfast has to be prepared using proper bacon. We prefer traditional dry cured bacon but equally traditional smoked bacon is just as good.

Currently our favourite bacon is a traditional dry cured that we purchase from the lady living in Torksey Lock cottage. It won’t be to everybody’s taste though. It is strong flavoured full bodied bacon that is hung for quite some time giving it a very distinctive flavour and tang. The perfect accompaniment to the best black pudding we have found from the Coop in Saxilby. As proper bacon it doesn’t shrink, you get what you pay for and at 20p a rasher it isn’t even expensive. It really does pay to shop locally and source good honest ingredients.