Pennsylvania Dutch Hot Bacon Dressing Recipes

Steps:

• Cook bacon until crisp; remove and chop.
• Add to greens.
• Add all other ingredients to the beaten egg and pour into the hot bacon fat and cook until thickened.
• Serve over greens, and add a little bit of chopped onion to salad, if desired.

Steps:

• Cut bacon into pieces and fry until crisp. Remove from drippings. Mix together beaten egg, vinegar, sugar and water. Stir until blended. Pour into pan with bacon drippings and cook over med-high. Mix cornstarch with small amount of water to form a slurry. Stir into hot mixture and stir until thickened. Pour over lettuce, endive, cooked broccoli raab, steamed escarole or spinach, Asian greens, or baby salad greens. Sprinkle with a pinch of red pepper flakes and garnish with the bacon bits. Chopped hard cooked eggs can be added, if desired. VARIATION: Alton Brown's Bacon Dressing- 3 tablespoon bacon fat 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar 1 teaspoon sugar 1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper

Steps:

• Fry bacon until crisp.
• Remove bacon from pan leaving fat.
• Set bacon aside.
• Add onion to bacon fat in pan and cook 5 minutes until onion is soft.
• Remove onion from pan leaving fat.
• Set onion aside with bacon.
• Pour bacon fat into measuring cup and add enough vegetable oil to equal 1/2 cup.
• Add fat/oil to cornstarch mixture and set aside.
• Combine vinegar, water, sugar, salt and pepper in small saucepan and heat to a boil.
• Add cornstarch mixture and cook until thickened about 1-2 minutes.
• Remove from heat and add bacon and onion.
• Serve while warm.