Leave the skin on. Your bacon may take a little longer to cure as the cure won’t penetrate the skin side as easily. Once you’ve cooked it in the oven, or smoked it on a smoker, let the bacon cool to the point that you can handle it, then run a knife under the skin. It comes off easily. Leave just a tiny bit of fat attached to the skin where you can.

Cut the skin into small half-inch by one-inch pieces and fry it. The skin will puff up and you’ll have “cracklins.” This is a totally different product than fried pork rinds. To do that you’d have to dry the skin out first. Michael Ruhlman has a fun post on fried pork skins here.

I have quit q few post on TFL. maybe we can share a few bad experiences. I will be on the raod in about 10 days so my bread baking goes down the tubes. I have a Motor Coach and I only have a Micro/convection oven. Does not do bread good at all.

Have fune. I have a few web pages and I might get your blog on one as soon as I get it finished. Mostly travel photos over 20 years. Lot of work
Good Liuck

Bob
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Dragées are a very old European tradition and have been used in Europe and the United States for years to decorate wedding cakes and other fine pastries.

The FDA in its Compliance Policy Guide 7117-03 classifies silver dragées in the following way:

“When small silver balls known as ‘silver dragées’ are sold exclusively for decorating cakes and are used under conditions which preclude their consumption as confectionery, they are not considered to be in the category of food or confectionery.”

Silver dragées containing the phrase “For Decoration Only” on the label and customarily sold in the decorating, not the food or the candy section of a store, comply with this policy statement.

Because they are not categorized as food or confectionery, the FDA does not want the manufacturer to list the ingredients. However, it may be helpful to know that they are made mostly of sugar. They may also contain minute amounts of gum arabic, wheat flour, artificial coloring, and/or a very thin coating of silver.

The European Union recognizes silver as a legitimate color additive and states that “small amounts of it consumed on special occasions are not harmful.”

Silver appears in medicines, cough drops and tooth fillings as well as in our water supply in controlled amounts. It is used to purify city drinking and swimming pool water. It occurs naturally in the soil in which produce is grown, and thus finds its way into the vegetables that we eat.

You may wish to access the FDA ruling cited above on the web. You may also wish to visit the website of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR CAS #7440-22-4) for more information on the effect of small amounts of silver on health.