{"id":36647,"date":"2021-07-30T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/?p=36647"},"modified":"2025-09-23T12:37:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:37:48","slug":"football-friday-tailgate-recipe-alabama-crackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2021\/07\/30\/football-friday-tailgate-recipe-alabama-crackers\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Friday Tailgate Recipe: Alabama Crackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Football Friday we are now 29 days away from the kickoff of the 2021 college football season. It&#8217;s the perfect time to start collecting some tried and true tailgate recipes.\u00a0 It is week FOUR of Football Friday Tailgate Recipe. Did you save the recipe for week three\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2021\/07\/23\/football-friday-tailgate-recipe-waynes-tortellini-salad\/\" target=\"_self\">Wayne&#8217;s Tortellini Salad<\/a>?\u00a0 This week&#8217;s recipe was sent to me by April Perry McWhirter.\u00a0 She married into a Crimson Tide family hence the Alabama Crackers.\u00a0 Y&#8217;all enjoy.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Alabama Crackers aka Bacon and Brown Sugar Crackers<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">These crackers are addictive. Who doesn&#8217;t love the sweet and salty? Definitely, do not skimp on the brown sugar also add some Chili powder or Cayenne pepper for a cracker with a sweet kick.<\/p>\n<h3>The Recipe:<\/h3>\n<p>What you need<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\">1 Box of Club Butter Crackers or Town House Crackers<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">4 Tablespoons of brown sugar<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Chili powder or Cayenne pepper<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">1 pound of bacon &#8211; regular sliced bacon. If you use thick-cut bacon, it will take longer to get crispy and the edges of the crackers might burn.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Rimmed Sheet Pan lined with foil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Directions:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>First, wrap the bacon around the cracker sprinkle with brown sugar and chili powder.<\/li>\n<li>Second, place the crackers on the cooling rack with the <strong>bacon ends facing down<\/strong>. This will help to keep the bacon from unraveling from the crackers.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">*pro tip* Bake the crackers on a cooling rack set in the foil-lined rimmed pan.\u00a0 This helps keep the bacon and crackers crispy and does not absorb all the grease coming out of the bacon.<\/li>\n<li>Third, bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes or until the bacon is crispy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a matter of fact, you can pre-assemble the bacon and crackers the night before and refrigerate but do not sprinkle with brown sugar until you are ready to bake.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, another variation I have had is Chicken in a Biscuit Crackers wrapped in bacon and baked.\u00a0 No brown sugar those are tasty as they can be too. Can you ever go wrong with anything bacon at a tailgate?<\/p>\n<h3>[pickup_prop id=&#8221;9038&#8243;]<\/h3>\n<h3>On The Menu<\/h3>\n<p>See you next Friday for week five of the Football Friday Tailgate Recipe. Up next week I have a huge treat for you.\u00a0 This recipe is a Wisconsin staple at tailgates. Also, one of my personal favorites.\u00a0 I had it on my list of must-have recipes and then I got one of the coolest DM&#8217;s I have ever gotten on Twitter. 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It&#8217;s the perfect time to start collecting some tried and true tailgate recipes.\u00a0 It is week FOUR of Football Friday Tailgate Recipe. Did you save the recipe for week three\u00a0 Wayne&#8217;s Tortellini Salad?\u00a0 This week&#8217;s recipe was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":36655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35689,35691,2056],"tags":[7451,4817,4780,7983,7608,3342,20,7846],"class_list":["post-36647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-culture","category-recipes","category-top-25","tag-2021-college-football-season","tag-acc-football","tag-big-12-football","tag-big-ten-football","tag-fcs-football","tag-pac-12-football","tag-sec","tag-tailgate-recipes"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80403,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36647\/revisions\/80403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}