The Great British Bacon Butty - Bacon Sandwich

French Tart's Note:

The news is out - scientists at my old university, (Leeds University in West Yorkshire) have discovered the PERFECT way to make a "Bacon Butty", that quintessential British sandwich, and they have devised a mathematical formula for it!! The bacon butty is one of my FAVOURITE sandwiches of all times.......especially when doused in HP Sauce or Worcestershire Sauce! Here is my method - it's hardly a recipe, more of an idea and an assembly job! I have posted their mathematical formula at the end of the recipe - my formula is: Eat your bacon butty whilst it’s still hot and crispy!! Please increase the quantities as needed. I like to use smoked bacon, but any good quality dry cure bacon will be fine.

• Total Time: 9 mins
• Prep Time: 2 mins
• Cook Time: 7 mins

Ingredients:

Serves: 1

Yield: 1.0 Bacon B ...

• 2 -3 slices back bacon, per person
• 2 slices of farmhouse bread, 1cm to 2cm thick, per person, OR
• 1 crusty roll, per person
• butter (optional)
• HP steak sauce (optional)
• Worcestershire sauce (optional)

Directions:

1. Cook the bacon under a preheated oven grill for seven minutes at about 240C/475F - turning half way through the cooking time.
2. Cook until crispy, but not burnt or too dry.
3. (You can also fry the bacon in a pan if you wish).
4. Butter the two slices of bread and place the grilled or fried bacon inside the two slices of bread to make a sandwich.
5. Add sauces to taste.
6. Enjoy!
7. The bread can also be toasted if you wish! And, you can make this sandwich with a crusty bread roll.
8. The Scientist's Formula:.
9. Four researchers at the Department of Food Science at Leeds University in the UK spent more than 1,000 hours testing 700 variations on the traditional bacon sandwich.
10. They tried different types and cuts of bacon, cooking techniques, types of oil and a range of cooking times at different temperatures.
11. A shortlist was then tested with computers to measure the texture of each sandwich.
12. Fifty volunteers also judged each sandwich according to its taste, texture and flavour.
13. The formula is: N = C + {fb (cm) . fb (tc)} + fb (Ts) + fc . ta, where N=force in Newtons required to break the cooked bacon, fb=function of the bacon type, fc=function of the condiment/filling effect, Ts=serving temperature, tc=cooking time, ta=time or duration of application of condiment/filling, cm=cooking method, C=Newtons required to break uncooked bacon.

Reviews

[I'mPat]

There is something about the simplicity of a butty - whether you have chips/fries, crisps, fish or crispy bacon the simplicty of buttered bread or roll your choice of ingredient and sauce of choice well you have a comfort meal/snack. Thank you French Tart for bringing memories back, made for Aussie/Kiwi Recipe Swap #45 October 2010.

[BethH]

Love bacon, english muffin toasting bread and A-1, never thought of putting them together tho. Crack cocaine of food.

[Domestic Goddess]

I just made this as a late night snack, but I used 3 regular thin slices of bacon, and cooked the bacon till it was lightly crisp. Served it in between buttered toasted bread along with a bit of Worcestershire sauce, and A-1 Steak Sauce. Mmm, it was good!! Next time tho, I'm going to use 6 slices of bacon per sandwich, and skip the Worcestershire sauce, and just top the bacon with the steak sauce. The Worcestershire sauce is a bit too runny, and has a tendency to make the bread a bit soggy. Thank you French Tart, for sharing this recipe. It makes for a good sandwich.