Bacon Today reader R. Rothery pointed us to an excellent recipe for Lamb Bacon today. The recipe was published in the North Coast Journal out of Humbolt County, CA (an area sometimes known for another type of bakin’ — see what I did there?).
Now, the Bacon Today readers have spoken up in the past declaring that turkey bacon is not real bacon. Is lamb bacon really bacon? Author Darius Brotman uses lamb belly to create his bacon. Is this enough to qualify it as bacon? Many of you know much more about the home production of bacon than we do — after all, we’re just bacon reporters.
Let us know your thoughts about lamb bacon using the comments below after you check out his recipe for lamb bacon.
July 16th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Hmmm… this is worthy of debate.
Boar bacon is obviously bacon because it still comes from a pig.
Turkey bacon is obviously not bacon because it comes from a bird (and tastes nothing like bacon).
But a lamb is another ungulate (hoofed animal) so I don’t really know if it qualifies or not. This could also open the door to goat bacon or something even weirder like llama bacon. Has anyone here ever tasted beef belly cut and prepared the same way that bacon is cut? Would that count as bacon?
A tasting is in order.