Smoked asparagus wrapped in bacon
Bacon-wrapped foods are foods that are prepared by being covered in bacon. They may be baked, fried, or grilled. Bacon wrapped food is a style of food preparation, where bacon is wrapped around other ingredients or dishes, and either grilled, fried, or baked. Many of the wrapped foods, such as livers and asparagus, cook more quickly than bacon itself does, and when preparing such dishes it is thus necessary smoked asparagus wrapped in bacon part-cook the bacon separately, before wrapping the filling and cooking the complete dish.
Bacon roll-ups, or simply rolls, are rolls made of bacon with a wide range of fillings from peanut butter, through asparagus, to cheese and chutney. Angels on horseback is a British dish of shucked oysters wrapped with bacon and grilled, and often skewered. It became popular in the Victorian era. Angels on horseback is a hot appetizer made of oysters wrapped with bacon. US variant of pigs in a blanket, which are canapés, since the latter always involve a bread base or wrapping, and angels on horseback are not by necessity served on toast. Bacon-wrapped scallops appear in American recipes starting at the turn of the 20th century, sometimes called “pigs in blankets”.
They became very popular starting in about 1980. Devils on horseback is a British dish of bacon-wrapped prunes. The prunes are stuffed with chutney, wrapped in bacon, and grilled. Devils on horseback are a hot appetizer or savoury.
Recipes vary but in general they are a variation on angels on horseback, made by replacing oysters with dried fruit. Other recipes stuff the prune with cheese, almonds, smoked oysters or other things in place of the mango chutney. Other versions again use liver pieces in place of the prunes. Devils on horseback are commonly served as part of a Christmas feast.