Bacon Jam

Text: CC Bakes


I stumbled upon this fantastic product a few weeks ago. It’s called Bacon Jam and is made by a company called Skillet Street Food. Now this bacon jam thing must be a sideline venture ’cause what these guys do is buy old Airstream Trailers and fit them out with full commercial kitchens and drive around to local parks and markets to provide delicious seasonal ‘bistro style food’ to Seattle. I guess they probably coat most things in BJ to seduce passers-by, and with good reason.

Anyway, I followed the link on their website to the ‘Order Yours now!’ page, only to find that because this little jar of jam comes from the Americas, the postage to our poor southern island is almost seven times as much as the little jar of meaty jam. It just wasn’t viable. So after contacting the skillet man and trying to bargain the postage down, to no avail, I decided I would just make some myself.

And I did, like Julia Childs, or one of her disciples. Firstly though, I did need to find out what the difference is between jam and chutney. Isn’t that something you’ve always wanted to know? It’s the camembert and brie quandary. Anyway, I soon found out it was a small matter of consistency and fruit quantity that divides the two. That aside, what I also decided in my food dealings, is that the world needs more of this bacon jam.

So if you are willing to pay the price, get your Bacon Jam here.

Or make your own delicious specimen like my fellow food blogger, Not Quite Nigela, who obviously found out about bacon jam a while before I did. This one’s a goody!

Another delicious taste of what comes every Wednesday from CC Bakes.
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