Porkers!

by Bob Sassone, Posted Jun 12th 2007 @ 4:33PM

Bacon Awhile back I told you about a really great book titled Fashionable Food. It details the history of food decade by decade, and includes a lot of cool recipes. I'll be highlighting some of the more interesting recipes from the book, and today it's Porkers.

This recipe is from the 1960s and was originally in the book How To Keep Him (After You've Caught Him) - I guess it was for the ladies. It uses Saltine crackers and bacon and...well, that's it actually. Mmmmm ... bacon. Full recipe after the jump.

Porkers

1 dozen Saltine crackers
1 dozen thin strips of lean bacon

Preheat broiler. Wrap each cracker with bacon and broil, turning once, until the bacon is crisp.

Filed Under: Retro cookery, Books
Tags: 1960s food, appetizers, bacon, fashionable food, FashionableFood, hors doeuvres, how to keep him after you've caught him, HowToKeepHimAfterYou'veCaughtHim, party food, party snacks, PartyFood, porkers, retro food, RetroFood, saltine crackers, saltines

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6-12-2007 @7:37PM Michael said... That's truly a fantastic book - I bought it years ago in a used bookstore in Providence, and I've enjoyed lots of historically-accurate recipes from it.
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6-13-2007 @11:50AM navstar said... Is this even a recipe? Wow.. what settled for food back then.

"Honey, I made your favorite! Bacon 'n crackers!"

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6-13-2007 @11:35AM Joanne Lutynec said... We do the same thing, but with Ritz crackers - awesome flavor
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6-13-2007 @12:58PM Venuz said... This sounds like a Sandra Lee recipe.
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6-16-2007 @2:50PM Cher said... Yuk, all the bacon grease gets absorbed into the cracker when you're cooking it. What kind of snack is a grease soaked cracker and bacon?
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6-16-2007 @3:35PM Doctor Bob said... Who came up with this recipe? Homer Simpson?

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6-16-2007 @4:59PM Crabby McSlacker said... Oh, I can think of something far grosser than Porkers. There's a guy who decided to make meatballs out of his own...
http://crankyfitness.blogspot.com/2007/05/artist-makes-meatballs-from-his-own.html

(Sensitive readers should NOT click on this link).
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6-16-2007 @5:19PM Jodee said... Don't eat that. Even bacon lovers need to draw the line here.
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6-16-2007 @5:46PM Cathy Cuisine said... Try using Water Crakers and try using a little shchmear of softened cream cheese. Then top that off with a tiny bit of pepper jelly, or chow chow relish or a teensy bit of cut up cilanto with a sqeeze of lemon or a bit of butter, very tiny; and add Marionberry jam on top of that.
Or do the bacon deal, but just cook the bacon first and crumble it up and then add it to the cracker.
Not that i have much experience with this, but i
have prepared a snack or two in my time.
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6-16-2007 @5:27PM jan said... That is the grossest thing I have ever heard. Yes, it must be from Homer Simpson. It should be called clog your arteries recipe for a heart attack.
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6-16-2007 @5:37PM chris lopez said... I got a better one for you! take 12 bread sticks wrap a piece of bacon around each, roll in parmesean cheese and cook in oven till brown and bacon looks crispy. yum yum, the flavors mingle and you end up with a easy elegant for company tasty for any time!!
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6-16-2007 @5:39PM helene taylor said... Sounds like heart attack heaven to me!
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6-16-2007 @5:45PM Lze said... Went to a friend's house recently and she had this. I thought how strange! And it tasted strange also. Really think there are much better hors d'oeuvres than this one. And easy ones as well. Things with much more flavor and appeal.
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6-16-2007 @6:29PM Jackie610 said... REALLY TO GROSS AN IDEA TO EVEN TRY ... and I can tell you we didn't eat this in the 60s (although there was a fairly good "mock apple pie" made with Ritz crackers.

Don't people eat real food anymore? Bacon has wonderful flavor and is great as a garnish or on a BLT -- once you get rid of a lot of its 20& saturated fat. But to sop it up on Saltines? Yehk!

Jackie
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6-16-2007 @6:33PM Rita said... To #10 "Cathy":

I have a nice variation on your Pepper Jelly snack recipe.

Just take a block of chilled cream cheese and cover it with green Jalapeno Pepper Jelly. Use Nabisco Wheat Thin "Harvesst Garden Vegetable" crackers to dip. Simple and delicious!!!

This is great to have on hand for unexpected guests.
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6-16-2007 @6:40PM Rita said... Here is a simple and delicious snack to have on hand for unexpected guests:

Try covering a large block of chilled cream cheese with a whole jar of green Jalapeno Jelly . . . and use Nabisco Wheat Thin "Harvest Garden Vegetable" crackers to dip.
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6-16-2007 @6:55PM Jane Harroff said... I have done a similar recipie using long thin breakstix broken in half, wrap rendered bacon around, broil, then push into brown sugar. Now THIS is a good recipie-----yours, on the other hand..........
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6-16-2007 @7:13PM Roberta said... Paula Dean did something like this and I tried it. Made me so sick I was in the bathroom for days! Too much pork grease! I've left it off my menu.
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6-16-2007 @7:46PM Pam said... EW!EW!EW!
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6-16-2007 @8:46PM Miriam said... Substitute the bacon for turkey bacon. Also, substitute salty crackers for the unsalted kind. Delicious! Just remember, eat conservatively!
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