{"id":13690,"date":"2019-07-01T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T05:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merig.com\/?p=13690"},"modified":"2019-10-09T15:39:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T19:39:29","slug":"watermelon-pickles-wrapped-in-bacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/2019\/07\/01\/watermelon-pickles-wrapped-in-bacon\/","title":{"rendered":"Watermelon Pickles Wrapped in Bacon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Makes 1 cup<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 small watermelon<br \/>\n\u00bd c cider vinegar<br \/>\n1 c sugar<br \/>\n1 cinnamon stick<br \/>\n\u00bc t fennel seeds<br \/>\n\u00bd t salt<br \/>\nraw bacon slices, cut in \u00bd<\/p>\n<p><strong>Procedure<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>For Pickles:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1. With vegetable peeler, remove green peel of baby watermelon, cut off white rind, reserve melon for other use.<br \/>\n2. Cut enough white rind into\u00a0\u00bd&#8221;x\u00bd&#8221;x2&#8243; sticks to make 2 cups.<br \/>\n3. In medium saucepan combine rind, cider vinegar, sugar, cinnamon stick, fennel seeds &amp; salt. Simmer on medium 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Cool.<br \/>\n4. Pack into mason jar &amp; refrigerate. Will keep 3 months, refrigerated.<br \/>\n<strong><em>For Yummy Hors D&#8217;oeuvres:<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n5. Wrap a piece of pickle in bacon, secure with toothpick.<br \/>\n7. Bake in preheated 425\u00b0F oven for 15 minutes (give or take).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15309,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690\/revisions\/15309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}