I have so much bacon, any ideas for a pie filling?

I run a part time bakery on the weekend from my house, and one of my customer who has their own pigs, just gave me a few kgs of bacon. Problem is I'm out of freezer space, and want to use it up ASAP...

I was thinking I'd really like to experiment with a meat pie with bacon. Up till now I've mainly done chicken/beef pies with chicken/beef stock based sauce thickened for my meat pies...

I could make somethign like classic british "pork pie" or "bacon egg pie" But wondering if anybody had some ideas on a type of sauce/ingredient combo might go well for a more "saucy" pie.

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Brendan_Lee_56950

Bacon gets overwhelming in it's saltiness really quickly. I would totally be thinking bacon jam and rendering all that delicious bacon fat

anthony_34093

Yes bacon jam all day. Just finished a batch with some Hardywood Peach Tripel.

Brendan_Lee_56950

I didn't care for that beer. I'm a tad Hardywood'd out these days. We have so many great breweries here that i've kinda forgotten about them.

tangma27

Instead of putting bacon into your pie...why not put bacon around your pie, in place of your crust? Then you'll have a real meat pie and an experiment to boot.

tshewman

Mind goes in many directions here. Baked bean (with bacon) pie immediately comes to mind. If you're interested, you could do a savory custard with bacon (e.g. caramelized fennel custard). I would personally lean toward the savory veggie custard with bacon but you could do so many things.

anthony_34093

Though it was good not great but it tastes pretty awesome in my bacon jam.

bkeene12

I would build a savory cheese cake, incorporate the bacon in the crust mixture, top the cheese cake with a bacon Vidalia onion jam and serve with a sharp citrus salad.

malcolm.mccaffery

This is so good.

tangma27

Oh hahaha I was just kidding around hahaha

Anne_13756

Make up bacon caramel or bacon jam and "can" it to store on shelf?