Original Receipt in 'The Book of Household Management', 1861, edited by Isabella Beeton (See Mrs.B)FRIED RASHERS OF BACON AND POACHED EGGS.
802. INGREDIENTS: Bacon; eggs.
Mode: Cut the bacon into thin slices, trim away the rusty parts, and cut off the rind. Put it into a cold frying-pan, that is to say, do not place the pan on the fire before the bacon is in it. Turn it 2 or 3 times, and dish it on a very hot dish. Poach the eggs and slip them on to the bacon, without breaking the yolks, and serve quickly.
Time: 3 or 4 minutes. Average cost: 10d. to 1s. per lb. for the primest parts.
Sufficient: Allow 6 eggs for 3 persons.
Seasonable: at any time.
Note: Fried rashers of bacon, curled, serve as a pretty garnish to many dishes; and, for small families, answer very well as a substitute for boiled bacon, to serve with a small dish of poultry, &c.