Emeril's Favorite Brown Sugar-Crusted Baked Bologna

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I made this for the first time at a New Years' Eve Party. It is now a tradition. It would be perfect for any casual gathering, sports, picnic, New Years Eve! A Super Bowl party would be perfect for this bologna
Simply and easy and so delicious. The toasty, sweet, crust is fabulous on this bologna.
I am not a white bread fan, but white bread truly goes best with this bologna. Bologna isn't something we eat frequently, but I do get requests for this bologna.
I serve this with an assortment of condiments, bbq sauce, mustard,mayo, pickles, onions, tomato.

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I hate to be the one to tell the truth here - but this recipe is not good! First, I LOVE Emeril Lagasse, and I think virtually everything he cooks is 'da bomb'! But, the baked bologna is one of those recipes where he must have included it just because he had to, not because he really eats this stuff! NOBODY eats this!

I followed the recipe exactly as written, using a high quality bologna, and high quality ingredients. I cooked it the right time. It came out gross.

After baking, the meat has the texture and aroma of a baked baby. . . .

And it goes down hill from there.

The bologna skin quickly becomes clogged, not crusted, with brown sugar that turns to mustard flavored molassas. It is a GREAT thing that I lined the pan with foil - once baked, the dripped off sugar is such a nasty slimy mess that you are glad you can simply throw it all away. There is no way to recycle the aluminum foil after this debacle.

After dinner, instead of wanting to watch football on TV, I just wanted to get rid of the disaster in the kitchen. But even my dog, who vomits and then eats it regularly, won't touch it. In fact, once put in the bowl, it just sits there. I tossed a piece out behind the fence (just as an experiment, and like the slice of cheese in "Diary of a Wimpy Kid", it is still sitting there. The bugs and roaches steer clear from it, and the neighbors all slammed their windows to keep the stench out.

Do yourself a favor - don't make this. Don't even think of making this. After baking this bologna, rather than the whole roll of fried bologna taste that I thought I might have, I recognized it for the discomfort one gets down wind from the dog catcher crematorium.

As for those who give this many stars, and find it a "Big Hit" - I have no idea what you eat at home on your regular days, but if this is a treat, your family and friends are just being nice to you.

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This has been a Super Bowl favorite of ours for the last 5 years. It is so good. It is easy to make and my Super Bowl guests love it and expect it. I make a 4 pound one and cook it for 3 hours. My family are not big bologna eaters but they do love when I make this every year.

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I have made this recipe at least 10 times over the past couple of years. It is requested all the time by family and friends. Trust me, my friends are true foodies and they still love this simple, down home dish. I cook it at 225 degrees for about 6 hours. I don't know what Anonymous could do to make it turn out awful but something went wrong.

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We make this every year to munch on while we watch the Super Bowl. There's usually only two of us, so we usually use a smaller piece of bologna and don't always bake it as long. Then we cut it as we eat it, and put it on saltines with more mustard and slices of onion. YUM! I didn't think I liked bologna until my husband made this!

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Hey, this isn't BAM - this is BLECHT ! Just turned out awful. Had people over and was soooooo embarrassed. Save a bologna's life and don't try this recipe.

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people loved it!!!! Went really fast at a party we attended. The best part is my husband made it!!!!

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On Emeril's TV show, he first basted the bologna with melted butter. I did that too. 1/2 hr after putting in the oven, I noticed a burning smell. The cookie sheet had bowed in the middle and the bologna had rolled to the edge. Most of the coating had dripped off onto the pan and oven bottom. Cleaned oven, tried to recoat bologna, made little wedges out of foil to chock the bologna from rolling again. Tasted OK.

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My husband wanted to try this for SuperBowl. I went to the grocery store and they were amazed when I told them in the deli what I was going to make. The aroma filled the house and it reminded me of a sweet ham baking in the oven for Easter Sunday when I was a kid. We pulled it out of the oven and was pleasantly surprised when it tasted as good as it smelled.

This is definitely something to try and is a hit with a group of guys over to watch the big game!!!!

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I did this A year ago and it went over great so great I was ask to do it again this year