Black Pepper Pig Candy

Clay Q

Thick cut applewood smoked bacon hit with black pepper.




Brown sugar melting, caramelizing, candyizing.




Aaaaaaaa, Lip smacking pig candy, done! Sweet, salty, sassy, smokey. Smokey for sure, added my own applewood chips for xtra flava. :silly:

Bash

Clay, that looks amazing. Very nice pics! Made my mouth water.

Gator Bait

 
Looks awesome Clay, great minds must think alike, I have Pig Candy on the menu. I have 6# of Maple flavored bacon stashed away and one of these mornings very soon I'll get it done. I'm dragging my feet till I have more room in the freezer. If I can't freeze most of it I'll eat it all!

Gator

 

Eggtucky

awww man...now I'm gonna have to go make some of that!! nice job as usual Clay

Brokersmoker

How long and what temp? Looks great, and everyone know's that everything taste better with bacon :woohoo:

Clay Q

Hi Brokersmoker,
My Master, Thirdeye, got me wise on Pig Candy.

http://playingwithfireandsmoke.blogspot.com/1998/02/pig-candy-pig-tails.html

Easy to spin the recipe to the flavors you like. I changed out to black pepper. I also had some fun using chili powder on previous pig candy cooks.

Enjoy!

Clay Q

Eggtucky, good to hear from you!
Have a great weekend and hope there's cookin involved. :cheer:

Frank from Houma

Eggcelent Clay - doesn't last long around here - mostly cause of me :unsure:

Made a very large batch once and after cooling I froze the pig candy in a flat tupperware container separating the layers with wax paper. Every once in a while someone (not saying who) would take a piece out and have it frozen - in fact none of it was warmed up. Frozen pig candy is mightyfine - maybe I should crumple some up on a bowl of ice cream. :woohoo:

SSN686

Morning Clay:

Thanks...now I have to visit the dentist to fix the teeth broken while trying to bite the computer screen! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

That was looking tooooo goooooood!

Clay Q

Well this was two batches of pig candy that I took to work for a picnic lunch the next day. So good it was! I got two strips for myself, the rest disappeared in a couple of minutes. :ohmy: It's addicting.
Good luck with your maple bacon, it will be great as pig candy I'm sure. Smoke it again as you hot cook with a touch of maple wood....ups the flavor and great the next day as smoke mellows with a overnight rest.
Enjoy!

2Fategghead

Gotta love pig candy! umm umm good :P Tim

Clay Q

Thanks.
And it was like heaven on earth when I took a bite.

I had to steady myself....and save some for others. :silly: I made two batches about 24 strips of this addiction bacon.

Clay Q

Awesome Frank, frozen pig candy on ice cream....
I'll tell ya, this stuff is addicting. I brought this in the next day to a picnic lunch at work, disappeared in a minute. A co-instructor took what was left at the bottom of the container I brought the pig candy in, just some melted drippings, and managed to pour it on his hamburger. He said "Can't let the drippings go to waste". He's addicted. :laugh:

Clay Q

Thanks man. Ya made me laugh.

Sorry about your tooth. :S
:laugh:

Clay Q

And what a love it is. :woohoo:

Gator Bait

 
I like the idea of the maple wood and it makes a great excuse to get some. I ran out a while ago.

I have a fresh supply of maple syrup (the good stuff) and a fresh bottle of Jack Daniel's Old Number 7 (for medicinal purposes) and I have been wondering how I could get those two in the act with out making the Pig Candy to goopy and sticky. I have to figure this out before I need another bottle of Jack! :laugh:

Gator