{"id":158,"date":"2011-05-13T14:49:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T19:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outdoorcookingworld.com\/OutdoorCookingBLOG\/?p=158"},"modified":"2016-09-07T09:17:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T16:17:00","slug":"cheese-bacon-potato-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.outdoorcookingworld.com\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"Cheese &#038; Bacon Potato Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cheese and bacon is up there with steak and potato. But wait, there&#8217;s potatoes in this recipe as well.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>INGREDIENTS:<br \/>\n1 Tablespoon butter<br \/>\n6 oz slab bacon, rind removed, fat trimmed, thinly sliced<br \/>\n2.5 pounds of baking potatoes, Idaho russets work well<br \/>\n1\/2 cup grated Gruyere cheese<br \/>\nPepper to taste<\/p>\n<p>DIRECTIONS:<br \/>\nButter bottom and sides of pan, arrange 1\/3 of bacon slices in a spiral, drape over edge, set aside.<\/p>\n<p>Peel potatoes, rinse under cold water, pat dry. Slice thinly into rounds, rinse and dry on paper towels. Add 1\/3 cheese, 1\/3 of potatoes and 1\/3 of the remaining bacon slices in a layer. Repeat for the last 1\/3 (layers) of cheese, potato slices and bacon slices. Fold overhanging bacon on top of the cake.<\/p>\n<p>Bake uncovered until potatoes offer no resistance when pierced, about 40 &#8211; 50 minutes. Remove pan, transfer to a cooling rack. Cool for 15 minutes and serve.<\/p>\n<p>I found this recipe on a plain piece of letterhead. The author actually used a typewriter. So it goes way back. Could have been me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheese and bacon is up there with steak and potato. But wait, there&#8217;s potatoes in this recipe as well. INGREDIENTS: 1 Tablespoon butter 6 oz slab bacon, rind removed, fat trimmed, thinly sliced 2.5 pounds of baking potatoes, Idaho russets work well 1\/2 cup grated Gruyere cheese Pepper to taste DIRECTIONS: Butter bottom and sides &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outdoorcookingworld.com\/?p=158\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cheese &#038; Bacon Potato Cake<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7S9UK-2y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.outdoorcookingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.outdoorcookingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.outdoorcookingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.outdoorcookingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.outdoorcookingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.outdoorcookingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"http:\/\/www.outdoorcookingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.outdoorcookingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.outdoorcookingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.outdoorcookingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}