This vintage squash fried with bacon is fantastically simple to make. It takes just minutes to whip up and cook. Since summer squash arrives in the summer months, this is a perfect side dish recipe for barbecues and picnics – squash, bacon, and black pepper the only needed ingredients. I absolutely love recipes that take under 5 ingredients. They typically make for a simple cooking process.
First of all, you need to clean out the majority of the seeds before cooking. To make the recipe prep go faster, I didn’t do this step. But if you want the dish to look a bit more presentable, then I would clean the squash up from seeds. Seeds or not, it doesn’t change the taste of the side dish at all.
Cymlings Fried with Bacon
Fry some Slices of fat Bacon in a Pan. Remove the Bacon and keep hot. Fry in the Drippings some Cymlings that have been boiled tender and cut in Slices. While frying, mash fine with a large Spoon and add Pepper and Salt. Fry brown and serve with Bacon.
(from Williamsburg Art of Cookery, Old Virginia Recipe from unknown date)
Cost to make this recipe.
There aren’t too many ingredients that make up this recipe, in fact only three. Summer squash, the main component, grown like we do, in your backyard. Free yellow squash will cut the recipe cost in half. The price will go from $6.92 to $3.92 and down to $0.65 per side dish serving.
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18th Century Pound Cake
Simple pound cake recipe that dates back to the 18th century, colonial period.
This recipe is adapted from The Williamsburg Art of Cookery cookbook. All images and text are all my own and original to One Acre Vintage Homestead – Pumpkin Patch Mountain Homestead.
Wash and cut up the summer squash in half lengthwise. Remove all the seeds then chop into thick slices.
Boil the slices of squash until tender. This should only be a few minutes.
While squash is boiling, slice bacon into bite size pieces and begin to fry.
Remove some of the bacon grease from the pan and then add the boiled squash to the bacon pan. Continue frying until the bacon is cooked completely and the squash is fried.
