I got the recipe from my mom and I'm not sure where she got it, but here it is! I followed it mostly but did cut back on the sugar.
Ingredients:
- 1 large can of whole water chestnuts
- 1 package of bacon
- 1/2 cup Diana sauce
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 tsp dry mustard
Instructions:
Cook the bacon and cut the pieces in half (or just use precooked bacon for less of a mess).
Drain and rinse the water chestnuts. Wrap bacon around water chestnuts and hold in place with a toothpick.
Combine ingredients to make sauce and pour into bottom of a dish. Bake at 300 for about half an hour.
Yum!These are a little bit time consuming to make, but easy to prepare ahead of time if necessary!
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Oh,wow. Some family friends of ours used to throw a lot of parties when I was a kid and they ALWAYS had these! I was the little 8 year old kid who would hover over the dish and sneak as many as possible. I forgot about them until now!!! I'm making these immediately. Thanks for posting this!
ReplyDeleteI'm not a water chestnut fan, but replace them with scallops and now you're talking!
ReplyDeleteOh, and the precooked bacon likely wouldnt work - it doesn't wrap well..
I'm glad you liked them. I always made them with the precooked bacon but I just didn't like the taste as well as the uncooked bacon. Also, it was more of a pain to make them with the precooked bacon because when you cut the bacon in half lots of time it wasn't long enough to wrap around the chestnut. I like Marina's idea of scallops too. I may try that one.
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