Description
Recipe source: saveur (april 2004)
Ingredients
- Bacon
- Crisco
- Eggs
- Onion
- Pickled Jalapeno Peppers
- Jalapeno Juice
- Sugar
- Baking Soda
- Salt
- Cumin
- Pepper
- Cornmeal
- Buttermilk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425-degrees f
- Fry bacon in a skillet over medium heat until crisp
- Transfer bacon to paper towels to drain
- Crumble bacon and set aside
- Pour bacon fat into a bowl and set aside
- Melt crisco and 2 tablespoons of the bacon fat together in the same skillet over medium heat
- Grease a muffin tin with remaining bacon grease and transfer to oven so muffin tin will be hot
- In a large bowl beat eggs
- Add bacon, onions, jalapenos, pickling juice, sugar, baking soda, salt, cumin and pepper and stir well to combine
- Add cornmeal and buttermilk and stir to combine
- Add the hot fat and stir until combined
- Remove muffin tin from oven
- Pour batter into muffin tins
- Bake or 15-20 minutes or until done and toothpick comes clean