My aunt Ruth has been carrying these southern 3-ingredient brown sugar bacon crackers into every spring gathering since I was a young mother setting out card tables in the church basement. They look like something that took all afternoon, with the brown sugar bubbling up around the bacon and turning glossy and sticky over buttery crackers, but the secret is they use only three pantry ingredients and a roll of foil.
This is the kind of recipe that grew out of potluck culture in the rural Midwest and South—simple, salty-sweet,
