Bacon milkshake

Ingredients:

Bacon drippings

Vanilla ice cream

Maple syrup

Milk

A dash of salt

Instructions:

Mix all ingredients together to taste. Recommend at least two table spoons of syrup and drippings. Make sure the syrup doesn’t over power the bacon or it will by a syrup shake rather than a bacon shake, and who would want that?

Review:

Yeah, that’s right. Bacon milkshake. Don’t knock it ’til you try it. When I first heard of this, I thought only die-hard bacon fans could love this concoction, but I am now a devout believer in liquid bacon love.

The shake tastes like Sunday morning breakfast smells. Made with ice cream, a few tablespoons of bacon drippings (add to taste) and a little maple syrup, all the flavors are allowed to shine.

When adding the ingredients together, I would advise watching the temperatures of things. The cold ice cream can cause the maple syrup to harden in the shake rather than mixing into it. I thought I was chewing a lump of congealed bacon grease before I realized it was just syrup. Whew. That was a close one.

The hot grease and cold ice cream makes this a shake you have to drink faster than the average old-school milk and ice cream shake; it melts quickly.

Think of it this way. If a McDonald’s breakfast were chilled and liquefied, it would taste like a bacon milkshake. Sweet, hearty and milky all at once. The best thing about cooking with bacon is the fact that the bacon complements other tastes instead of overpowering them.

I know, the idea of a bacon milkshake is scary. But it’s no scarier than finals week. So mix up a shake for dead week and feel invincible for your finals.