Baking with bacon recipes | Dan Lepard

Good bacon will shine in these recipes. But if you can get only the cheaper stuff, blanch it first (cover it in water, bring to a boil, remove from the heat, spoon off the white scum and drain), before frying with it. This process means the liquid added during a wet cure won't leach out into the frying pan, causing a sticky mess. You will lose some flavour, but then cheap bacon is rather thin and disappointing anyway.