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- Y'all, I am so excited to share this recipe with y'all.
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It is my favorite appetizer at Paula Deen's Creek House.
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It is incredible, y'all.
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And, it's called clothesline bacon,
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was the name that I gave it.
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And we had these little clotheslines made.
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And just using a regular clothespin.
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This is how it's served.
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I'll show y'all how it's served at the restaurant.
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And we put our garlic down here.
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You can see where it's turned black
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down there because...
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- [Woman] Is it locked?
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- Watch your fingers. - Okay.
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All right, now we just,
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we just get our Rosemary just simmering.
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Oh, and smell that, guys.
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Can y'all smell that Rosemary?
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- Yes. - It smells so wonderful.
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- [Man] You just want it to smoke a little.
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- Yeah, you just want it to smoke.
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And I think it's gonna need some more fire though, Eddie.
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Here, let's see if we can get it.
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We can dip that in a little liquor, couldn't we?
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- [Eddie] Some bacon grease.
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- Uh huh. - There you go.
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- And it would, yeah, I think now it's gonna smoke.
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But that rosemary smoke is gonna go up into that bacon.
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Now, I'm gonna tell you right off the bat,
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this may be hard to find.
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it's five-eighths of an inch thick of slab bacon.
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In the butchers almost anymore, or not,
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you can't go in and and have bacon cut.
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Hopefully you'll find a grocery store that can.
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But I'm gonna lay these four beautiful pieces of bacon out.
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Now I'm gonna take pure maple syrup
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with some coarse black pepper that we ground.
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And I'm using some whole.
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But the secret, y'all, to this,
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which I do not have, is pink peppercorn.
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The pink peppercorn is so delicious.
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And you can bite into that and it's not overly hot,
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So girls, y'all get your husbands
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to build ya a little clothesline.
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All right, now I'm gonna sprinkle a little brown sugar.
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And kind of just pat that into it.
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This is like, you know in your fancy restaurants,
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you can order that, what is it Eddie?
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That we like to order when we go in
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them fancy restaurants in New York?
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Pork belly. - Oh pork belly, yes.
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- [Paula] This kinda reminds me of pork belly.
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- [Eddie] Yeah, I think the best one
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that we had was in Missouri.
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- [Paula] Where were we?
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- [Eddie] We were at a casino, I believe.
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Imagine, we's at a casino.
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Okay, now look at that.
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Now we're just gonna flip that bacon over.
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And we're going to put this in a fairly slow oven.
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We're gonna just let it cook until it's
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like the fat's rendered out of it.
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And I'm using straight, pure maple syrup, y'all
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Maple syrup gives it the best flavor.
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Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm.
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This is gonna be so good.
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And I'm so happy to share this with y'all.
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I just can't tell you how happy it makes me.
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'Cause I tell everybody, if you come into Creek House,
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you gotta order the candied clothesline bacon.
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- [Eddie] Yes, I love to order the wedge salad there,
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and a side of this, and chop it up.
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I know, I've seen you do that before.
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And chop this candied bacon and put it on top of your salad.
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And like I said, we wanna just cook this fairly slow.
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'Cause it's almost like cooking a pork chop,
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I mean it's that thick.
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- [Eddie] Yeah, I think I've actually
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seen you cook thinner pork chops than that.
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(Eddie and Paula laughing)
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You can put that in the oven and just let it bake.
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I've got some bacon that Eddie and I
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just ground up in our coffee bean grinder.
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It works good to grind, oh peppercorns, doesn't it Eddie?
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I hope I got enough syrup.
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On some dry places I may just,
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'cause I about ran out back here.
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And I don't want to shorten any four of these pigs.
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In the oven this goes.
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We'll probably flip it several times during cooking.
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So let me wash my hands and I'm fixing to show y'all
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how it would come to you at the restaurant.
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Okay, so this is how the candied clothesline bacon
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will come to your table.
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With that Rosemary, that fresh Rosemary just kinda smoking.
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You know, we ought to serve this with a scissors.
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So if you wanted just a half a piece,
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because it's rich, y'all.
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- [Woman] Who would ever want half a piece?
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- I don't know who that person is, but...
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- [Woman] They shouldn't come in.
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- It's like eating a strip of candy.
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It's so, so good, y'all.
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And we serve a homemade bread at Creek House.
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And I could make myself sick off of that loaf of bread
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that we bring to your table.
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And candied clothesline bacon.
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please make sure you try this
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because it's sure enough good.
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Love and best dishes, that we're capable of making.
