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Wilted Lettuce Recipe

	Pintobean / All my dishes 2 years, 7 months ago When the spring lettuce came in before the heat . Grandma always fixed this salad . Prep:10m Cook:10m Servings:4	Pintobean
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Ingredients

1 tbls. bacon grease ( hot)

1 tbls. flour

3/4 cup water

3 tbls. sugar ( brown or reg.)

1 tsp. salt

1 egg

1/2 cup cider vinegar

2 qts. fresh lettuce

1/2 cup chopped green onions

Directions

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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Comments

tnacndn 2 years, 7 months ago said:
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
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coffeebean 2 years, 5 months ago said:
Now that's a really interesting recipe, I love lettuce and will give this a try - thanks for sharing!

tpatti 2 years, 5 months ago said:
I remember my grandmother and mother making this also. Sometimes they would serve it over young dandelion greens.

stilldreamin 2 years, 5 months ago said:
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!!

helewes 2 years, 5 months ago said:
My grandma too....sometimes she'd use baby spinach with the lettuce greens....yum.

jaie 2 years, 4 months ago said:
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.

fortuna 2 years, 3 months ago said:
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!

cdlsmith 2 years, 1 month ago said:
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!

ronita 4 weeks ago said:
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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