welcome friends welcome back to the
kitchen welcome back to sunday morning
and the old cookbook show
today we're going to do another recipe
out of this cookbook
success in seasoning put out by lean
parents incorporated
makers of worcester sauce although in
this cookbook they never refer to it
as worcester sauce it's always referred
to as lee and perrin sauce
and i wonder if in 1936 when they
published this cookbook
they figured it was just easier to say
lee and parent sauce
than try to get people to say worcester
sauce because no one's going to say it
correctly and in 2020
no one says it correctly and everybody
argues over the pronunciation
but i chose this recipe we're doing
today spaghetti with
bacon because i think the recipe speaks
to something that i
say fairly often nothing is new
everything has been done before in some
fashion
and as new recipes are developed we just
sort of work with what's been learned
already and we might tweak it a little
bit
but nothing is revolutionary at this
point case in point this is a one pan
spaghetti dinner
and we're going to start it with bacon
now the one pan spaghetti dinner really
shot to internet fame
around 2011 2012 it showed up in one of
martha stewart's magazines
and it caused quite a stir because
everybody said oh no you can't cook
pasta like that you've made up something
that's
terrible it's horrible and later on the
recipe
developer um had a story written about
how the recipe came about and how she
had found someone
in a kitchen in italy making spaghetti
this way
that recipe didn't seem groundbreaking
to me all that much
i mean there are other pasta dishes
where you cook the pasta in the liquid
in the sauce
and then here it is in this 1936
cookbook
essentially a spaghetti dinner hack and
there's two
other spaghetti recipes on this page and
one of them is a real hack i mean it
uses tomato soup
as the tomato base so i've got some
bacon in this pan
and we're going to fry this off until
it's slightly brown and to that i'm
going to add a chopped up pepper and a
chopped up onion
okay so this comes together pretty
quickly next in is tomato it calls for
two cups of tomatoes
so these are our home canned tomatoes
from our garden last summer
so i'm gonna put those in
calls for a cup of boiling water i'm
going to put
that in
and then half a pound of pasta
this doesn't quite fit in and i'm on the
fence about
breaking it i'm gonna break it 1936
do what you got to do so in goes the
pasta
calls for a sprinkle of salt which is
kind of strange
because the bacon would have lots of
salt
and so would the lee and parents sauce
so i'm hoping that it's not going to be
too
salty i'm just going to give that a bit
of a stir it says to cover it
and simmer for 20 minutes
i think 20 minutes is too long i'm going
to check it often
and i'm also going to check it often to
see if i need to add any more liquid
okay i think the pasta is done so the
last ingredient is the lean parents
and it's just a tablespoon so not very
much
and so in with the lean parents
and we give this a mix and then serve
immediately
hey jules hey glenn hey friends
i'm fascinated by this we talked about
this recipe yesterday and
i it has all the right ingredients
and i just you know it's the execution
right it's got all the right flavors
spaghetti with bacon come together one
pan spaghetti with bacon
so and yeah one pan like who wants to do
dishes i know since the donna time if
you could cut a dish out of the
or pan or a pot out you would so
oh yeah because you're going to eat kd
right out of the pot you're not even
going to put it into a bowl
so it smells really good now i have to
somehow gracefully
it does smell serve myself pasta in
front of everybody
you know what it's not half bad no
it's actually it's got the flavors you
like right the tomato is really good
tomato bacon onion you know the lean
pears
brings a little bit of sweetness to it
maybe that i'm not
you're not down with no i mean
and maybe you overpoured
just saying those of you who watch him
he's kind of an over poor kind of guy
completely could have over poured but i
i mean it it is one of those recipes
that
since the dawn of recipe advertising
where people arrest
were advertising a certain product and
you wonder why they tried to shoehorn
their product in
this could be one of those things where
it's kind of like well what are we going
to do doesn't do it any harm does he do
anything
yeah so i mean
this is 1936. it is not a glamorous
pasta dish no
this is not white tablecloth pasta no
but you know
it's edible yeah it is you know there's
a wrap there's a resounding
endorsement it's edible okay
i think it's good we've all experimented
with something and made something
completely inedible
right yes this could be you know i think
if you
so if you came home from work and you
needed to put something
filling and nutritious on the table
quickly
this is that dish and the reality like
every recipe
make your own make it your own leave out
the lee and parents and put in some hot
pepper flakes put in the other flavors
basil put in some whatever this is this
is a method white beans instead of bacon
whatever you want
exactly so this is a method that you
know this is 1936 so if it exists in
this book in 1936 it probably existed
in the 1800s probably and so it's a
method that you can just
morph into whatever you need it to be
i'm going to say the method's a winner i
know that there are going to be people
in the comments section who disagree
with that and i'm sorry
you gotta try it thanks for stopping by
see you again soon
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