Recipe: Baked Acorn Squash with Bacon

Baked Acorn Squash with Bacon
rec.food.recipe/plgold/1996
Serves 6

3 acorn squash
6 tablespoons butter
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
3 slices bacon, cut into halves
2 tablespoons 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.