Old days, from my Mom's hands, everything was fried in bacon.. She'd learned to cook in her early days in Montana, out on the trail with the cattle herding.. And it carried on from there.. 160 acre homestead outside on Cascade, MT is where they settled.. the old log cabin, cook shed to one side is still there, overgrown, but a kick to see what was only old b/w pics until I found it in the 90s... It's part of a huge cattle ranch now, but a cuz made a deal, put up barbed wire fencing to preserve it..
Anyway, never a recipe, a little of this or that, always gravy, a can of bacon grease atop the stove, whether it was the old wood stove or later electric..
But no way we can do that much fat in day to day diets.. I still do a few ponds of bacon, eggs, for the Grandkids.. Mmmm... Costco has a nice thick sliced Applewood smoked bacon.. it evaporates!
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