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Serenity Valley Farms

Mangalitsa Pork Cottage Bacon

Mangalitsa Pork Cottage Bacon

$28.99 USD
$28.99 USD
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COTTAGE BACON
Bacon from the shoulder, not the belly.
Naturally cured, hickory-smoked, and far leaner than a rasher.
SHOULDER
WHERE IT'S CUT
HICKORY
THE SMOKE
ROUND SLICES
NOT STRIPS
What makes it different
Not belly bacon
Belly bacon is mostly fat with streaks of meat through it. Cottage bacon is the other way round — round slices off the boneless shoulder, more meat than fat, closer to Canadian bacon than to a rasher.
How it behaves in the pan
There is much less fat to render, so it cooks faster and it will not curl and crisp the way a strip does. Treat it like a very thin chop and it is excellent.
Cured and smoked
Naturally cured, then slow-smoked over real hickory.
This is the bacon for a sandwich rather than a side. One slice covers the bread — which a rasher never does.
FROM THE FARM
Our Mangalitsa are raised on pasture and finished in the woods, where they forage. This one comes off the boneless shoulder — the same cut we sell as a butt roast, sliced thin, cured and smoked instead of roasted.
How to cook it
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Medium heat, and start it in a dry pan. There is enough fat in it to get going without help.
2
Two to three minutes a side. Watch it — with less fat it goes from done to dry faster than belly bacon does.
3
It will brown rather than curl. That is the cut, not a mistake.
4
Sandwiches, burgers, chopped into greens, or alongside eggs. Anywhere you want bacon flavor and actual meat.
What you're getting
Cottage bacon, cut from the boneless shoulder.
Naturally cured and slow-smoked over hickory.
Mangalitsa raised on our farm in Monticello, Kentucky, and cut at a USDA-inspected plant.
Weights are averages. Every package is cut by hand, so no two are exactly alike.
Who vouches for us
Homegrown By Heroes
Homegrown By Heroes
Farmer veteran certified
Weston A. Price Foundation
Weston A. Price
Wise Traditions listed
Kentucky Proud
Kentucky Proud
KY Dept. of Agriculture
Appalachia Proud
Appalachia Proud
Mountains to Market
USDA inspected · Processed at USDA-inspected facilities in Science Hill, Kentucky and Walling, Tennessee

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