Make Bacon Butter And Put It On Everything 

Make Bacon Butter And Put It On Everything 

Bacon grease and butter are glorious cooking fats. They’re reasonable priced (one comes free with bacon), deeply flavorful, and both promote a good amount of browning. Rather than choose between these two earthly delights, you should combine them to create a fantastic compound butter.

Photo: Claire Lower

Honestly, all of the best compound butters contain an animal fat – remember chicken butter? – but bacon butter might be the best. Its slightly smoky character means it’s great simply spread on toast or a tomato sandwich, but it’s also extremely well-suited for cooking; I mean, think of the pancakes alone.

To make it, simply combine 110g of butter with two tablespoons of bacon grease (both room temperature) and beat them together until you have a nice, fluffy spread. Once that’s consumed, try it with another (duck) fat. Any rendered animal (duck) fat will work.


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