Canadian Peameal Bacon

cowgirl · Dec 13, 2011

When making bacon the other day. http://bbq-brethren.com/forum/showthread.php?t=122086 I also made a bit of peameal bacon..

Brined cured the back loin for 8 days....

rolled in corn meal...

fried a slice for a taste test on a bisuit...

and served some as breadfast during deer camp...

you have the option to hot smoke the bacon but I like it best fried.

Thanks for looking!

bluetang · Dec 13, 2011

That really looks good! I do believe that I'll try that:-D

boatnut · Dec 13, 2011

That looks good Jeanie! I've always brined and smoked my pork loins for what I call Canadian Bacon, but I think your's is more authentic. Well....except you rolled yours in CORN meal instead of PEA meal, LOL

hamiltont · Dec 13, 2011

Oh ya Jeanie that look really good. Next time I make bacon I'm going to save out a couple hunks just for this. Thanks for the reminder! Cheers!!!

nmayeux · Dec 13, 2011

That looks very similar to the british bacon that I make for a bunch of expats living here in Atlanta. It looks really good, and I might have to give the cornmeal a try. Would you mind sharing your brine fecipe?

Phrasty · Dec 13, 2011

As always... Stellar! :clap:

Hoss · Dec 13, 2011

MY---O--MY! That looks KILLER! :thumb:

tish · Dec 13, 2011

Jeanie... what makes it "peameal" bacon? How is it different from Canadian bacon? Looks really good, whatever it is! :thumb:

BBQ Bacon · Dec 13, 2011

That looks great.

chambersuac · Dec 13, 2011

Another amazing looking meal. Thanks for sharing, but now I am craving some of that.

Mo-Dave · Dec 13, 2011

Peameal bacon, bringing back some memories their young lady.
Dave

FattyMac · Dec 13, 2011

Looks spot on to me!

It's called Peameal bacon as that's what it was originally rolled in. Corn meal is the standard these days and has been for as long as I've been around.

What you yanks call Canadian bacon is a cured and smoked pork loin. We don't see that much up here and certainly don't call it that.
Peameal bacon is very common, in fact I have a small roast of it thawing for a dinner sometime this week. You will quite often see a local service group offering up peameal bacon sandwiches as a fund raiser.

cowgirl · Dec 13, 2011

Thanks everybody!

boatnut said:
That looks good Jeanie! I've always brined and smoked my pork loins for what I call Canadian Bacon, but I think your's is more authentic. Well....except you rolled yours in CORN meal instead of PEA meal, LOL

lol Mike,... you are right, I didn't want to grind yellow peas. I was being lazy! :-D Thanks....

nmayeux said:
That looks very similar to the british bacon that I make for a bunch of expats living here in Atlanta. It looks really good, and I might have to give the cornmeal a try. Would you mind sharing your brine fecipe?

Thank you Noah! I bet your British bacon is tasty! I got the recipe from a Canadian friend http://cowgirlscountry.blogspot.com/2011/11/backloin-canadian-slab-and-peameal.html I really love the stuff.

tish said:
Jeanie... what makes it "peameal" bacon? How is it different from Canadian bacon? Looks really good, whatever it is! :thumb:

Thank you Tish! The American version of Canadian bacon is usually smoked. Canadian version of peameal bacon is pickle brine cured and is rolled in yellow peameal but cornmeal is a lot easier to use. Then it's usually sliced and fried instead of smoking. I've smoked them before but really like sliced and fried better.
I DO make the American version of Canadian bacon too... it's good stuff.:-D

FattyMac said:
Looks spot on to me!

It's called Peameal bacon as that's what it was originally rolled in. Corn meal is the standard these days and has been for as long as I've been around.

What you yanks call Canadian bacon is a cured and smoked pork loin. We don't see that much up here and certainly don't call it that.
Peameal bacon is very common, in fact I have a small roast of it thawing for a dinner sometime this week. You will quite often see a local service group offering up peameal bacon sandwiches as a fund raiser.

Thank you Mac!! Thanks for the info too. I really love peameal bacon sliced and fried. I can see how the sandwiches would be great for a fund raiser!
Thanks again... :-D

Hoss · Dec 14, 2011

Jeanie,I wonder what would be wrong with rolling it in grits???Grits are ground corn too. We could call it whatever we wanted to!!! Your thoughts?I got it! Nitty Gritty Bacon!

rondini · Dec 14, 2011

Looks good as always Jeanie.

Rookie'48 · Dec 14, 2011

Jeanie, this time I put my bib on before I opened your thread - and it's a good thing that I did :thumb: (drool mod). I might just have to give this a try pretty soon.

Phubar · Dec 14, 2011

Awesomeness!

expatpig · Dec 14, 2011

Looks great Jeannie, now you can follow it up with a smoked "cottage roll".

cowgirl · Dec 14, 2011

Thank you Hoss, Ron, Dave. Phu and Expat!

Hoss said:
Jeanie,I wonder what would be wrong with rolling it in grits???Grits are ground corn too. We could call it whatever we wanted to!!! Your thoughts?I got it! Nitty Gritty Bacon!

I like the way you think! :becky: I'm not sure about the frying part though.. would the grits fry up and leave a crisp coating on the bacon? I might give it a go and see.. Love the name Nitty Gritty Bacon.. lol Thanks!

expatpig said:
Looks great Jeannie, now you can follow it up with a smoked "cottage roll".

A smoked cottage roll sounds tasty!! Thank you expatpig! :-D

cholloway · Dec 14, 2011

Bacon looks great but I gotta ask... is that "canned" biscuits??? :shocked:

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