Bacon Recipes

It was the Romans who brought the idea of curing bacon to Britain. In fact, they had been salting flitches of bacon from about 200 B.C., and when they made their take-over bid for these islands, they brought their bacon technology with them.

Since then, bacon has become one of the most typical of British foods. Indeed, it was the British who invented what is known as the Wiltshire cure—a method of curing bacon which has been adopted by every bacon-curing country of the world.

It was the Victorian English who, at the height of their imperial greatness, developed the British breakfast—eggs and bacon. It’s not a dish you can avoid while travelling in Britain.