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Wilted lettuce Recipe

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How to make it

  • Mix thoroughly and boil 2 or 3 min., Whisking all the while. Pour , hot over washed lettuce leaves into which you have chopped one bunch of green onions.( approx. 1/2 cup). Serve warm.

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  • ronita 14 years ago
    Yes, this sounds delicious but I don't know about the bacon grease, what about crispy bacon pieces for the taste?
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  • cdlsmith 16 years ago
    My mother in law always made this in the Spring when the lettuce was big enough to pick. (with just hot grease and vinegar) and she called it Killed Lettuce. It is a very traditional dish here in East TN. Eat with your pinto beans!
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  • fortuna 16 years ago
    I am going to try this. I have had the similar spinach salads this way with crumbled bacon but have never tried to make this myself. I grow swiss chard (easy to grow) and this would be great over those fresh leaves! I may try it with rice vinegar though instead of apple cider vinegar! It looks delicious!
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  • jaie 16 years ago
    There is a similar recipe in some of my 1960's cookbooks and I thought it was crazy. Then my grandmother and mother both told me this was standard fare. It's hard to justify bacon grease these days, but it is surprisingly good.
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    " It was excellent "
    helewes ate it and said...
    my grandma too....sometimes she'd use baby spinach with the lettuce greens....yum.
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  • stilldreamin 16 years ago
    I tweeked this recipe a bit...didn't add the eggs or onions...which is more like what my mom used to make...it was delicious....thanks for posting!!
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  • tpatti 16 years ago
    I remember my grandmother and mother making this also. Sometimes they would serve it over young dandelion greens.
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    " It was good "
    coffeebean ate it and said...
    Now that's a really interesting recipe, I love lettuce and will give this a try - thanks for sharing!
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  • tnacndn 17 years ago
    OK all these years I thought my early childhood memories were betraying me until now. I was remembering my parents putting hot bacon grease on lettuce and green onions and eating it. I never would try it because I was only about 4 or 5 and a really picky eater. You have just proved to me that I am not having wrong memories after all. Heeheehee
    Gem
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