Buckboard Bacon!

[Michael_in_TX]

So a childhood friend of mine and I recently reconnected online. We haven't seen each other in 26 years (!). As it turns out, we both have found a pastime in smoking and grilling. (It's also wild that we both found ourselves working in public higher ed, which is very, very cool.)

On a trip down near my side of Texas, he dropped off some bacon he had smoked, including something I had never heard of: buckboard bacon.

This is not pork belly, but pork butt, cured like traditional bacon and then smoked. It is amazing. It is like....grown up Canadian bacon, but far, far more flavorful.

Here is a BLT I made tonight with it....wheat toast with kewpie may, lettuce, tomato, and the bacon slices, which I browned up slightly in a cast iron pan. Yummy.

[smokenoob]

Wow! That sounds great!

[ItsAllGoneToTheDogs]

I love all bacon, and while traditional USA bacon is tops for me nostalgia wise... I really enjoy a good slice of British Bacon, or Candian Bacon (USA style or not), Buckboard, and especially Beef Bacon

[texastweeter]

I make that, but call it cottage bacon.

[Skip]

In Minnesota that is made and sold in several Local Butcher Shops and called Cottage Bacon. It's wonderful and a good bacon option as the garden Tomatoes will be ready soon!