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Bacon in recipes - what can you do? Comment! A health newsletter sent a post about using rosemary for health reasons but the recipe ingredients were mushrooms and bacon. I really think that with the increasing numbers of readers and viewers who are going to be cooking for eaters who are Jewish, Muslim or vegetarian, it would be helpful to list alternatives. I haven't tried the recipe yet. It sounds a good idea, except that I have read that health food addicts should avoid processed meats. It would be helpful to have an alternative meat for those who don't eat bacon (Jewish, Muslim and vegetarian family or friends and guests), and indeed any recipe could list alternatives as did WWII wartime cookbooks when meat was rationed and all sorts of ingredients might be unobtainable or the quantities were limited. I would try the recipe with chicken. Of course you then lose the flavour. I am not a vegetarian but I have neigbours, relatives and friends who are. You can buy vegetarian bacon-flavour bits which we found a great substitute for bacon. My Attempts At Comments I have always meant to tell TV programmes to offer alternative ingredients. I added the above note as a comment on the internet recipe page. My first attempt to comment failed. I tried to make my comment without adding a rating because I had not yet tried the recipe. Besides I was not sure that my rating would be useful to other readers if I had made a variation on the recipe. But the page reloaded and made me type again. That was a nuisance. So I retyped and copied my text before clicking on submit. Then I thought - hey - just the thing for a post on a site with lots of Jewish readers. |
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I suppose any strongly flavoured substitute would do. I haven't come across smoked goose. I suppose before frozen food, smoking was a standard way of preserving any fish or meat. I'm rarely further than a few yards from a piece of smoked salmon. Thanks for that suggestion.
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