Pigskin is the social lion of winter for cocktail nibbling; it goes mighty well with beer. Pigskin is a first cousin to cracklings, but of more elegant manner. Bacon skins, that's what, fried tender, easy-crunching as a crisp chip of potato, not so hard and greasy as the cracklings selling in Harlem. Several firms are producing fried rind under various trade names, but “Rolets” is the one we find especially savory, made by the Rolet Company, 24 Bogart Street, Brooklyn, retailing 1 ¼ ounces for 10 cents at numerous New York markets.
These streamlined, tenderized cracklings can be used as a garnish to crumble over such soups as purée of green pea, bean soup, corn soup. Have them with succotash. Crumble to serve as a relish with curry.
Cheese gets together with bacon in a new spread fathered by the Borden Company, the five-ounce jars around 24 cents. This, like the other spreads in the Borden line, is in a graceful reuse glass.
The item is an outgrowth of a war-time cheese used in K rations, the only thing in the kit the men said they liked eating. A food capable of making friends with the armed forces must be worthwhile remembering for peacetime consumption, the Borden heads figured. Here it is restyled for the home table.
The bacon is ground, broiled, defatted, then blended with creamed processed Cheddar. A spread to use in sandwiches, or as cocktail nip on a cracker.
Beat the drums for the mustards of France, here from Dijon. Maison Glass, 15 East 47th Street, have them plain or tarragon-flavored, 4 ¼ ounces 40 cents.
Telburn's bright little shop at 161 East 53rd Street, specializing in “bees' knees” and “butterflies' eyebrows,” meaning about everything fancy, has dates steeped in rum and put up in honey and cognac. Rich, almost cloying if you eat them straight from the jar. But to eat over ice cream or a pudding —utter content! The price is ＄1.35 for a 10-ounce jar.
Another Telburn custom-built topping idea is almonds packed with an orange liqueur sweetened with honey. Dribble the sauce over a fruit salad, add a few of the nuts. Another item on the same style is the jar of hazelnuts brandy-scented, honey-blessed. Nut packs are ＄1.10 for the 6-ounce jar, that also goes for the fruit mélange in brandy with spices, 10 ounces. The fruits are a medley of pears, peaches, figs, apricots, prunes, a sweet bite with cold chicken, turkey, or lamb.
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