Recipe: Baked Acorn Squash with Bacon

Baked Acorn Squash with Bacon
Usenet/Helen Peagram (1998)
Yield: 6 Servings

3 acorn squash
6 tbsp butter
salt and freshly ground
black pepper
3 slices bacon, cut into halves
2 tbsp brown sugar

Preheat oven to moderate (350-degrees F.)

Cut the squash in half and spoon out the seeds.

Arrange the squash halves, cut side up, on a baking sheet.

Drop one tablespoon of butter into the cavity of each half and season to taste with salt and pepper. Add half a slice of bacon to each half and one tablespoon of brown sugar.

Bake 45 minutes, or until the vegetable is tender when tested with a fork.