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wilted lettuce & onion salad with bacon

(2 ratings)
BillHillyDee avatar
Recipe by
Diana Newton
@BillHillyDee
Ozarks Plateau Region, MO

GMa had this quiet often from fresh greens from the garden. Mommy always ate this as well when she was an adult. I like this, too- just not as much as the Mommy or GMa *smile* and ENJOY! This can be a main dish, side dish, snack or salad before main course- you be the judge on when and how much to serve. This is a very old recipe and I am sure I am probably not the first one to post this, or this variation of wilted lettuce salad. Folks in these parts often pronounced 'salad' as Salat ( Elizabethian English spoken dialect in these old hills and mountains)

(2 ratings)
yield serving(s)
cook time 10 Min
method Stove Top

Ingredients For wilted lettuce & onion salad with bacon

  • DRESSING
  • 2 Tbsp
    melted bacon grease
  • 2 Tbsp
    vinegar
  • 1 Tbsp
    sugar
  • SALAD INGREDIENTS
  • 1 1/2 qt
    shredded lettuce (you can use leaf or bib) also used are spinach leaves or garden greens of almost anykind. wild greens can also be used if you normally use those
  • 3
    chopped green onions
  • 1 or 2 slice
    cooked bacon, crumbled or chopped (optional)
  • salt and pepper to taste and any other season you prefer
  • chopped boiled eggs and other normal salad ingredients you may prefer also after the dressing has been poured atop the salad ingredients

How To Make wilted lettuce & onion salad with bacon

  • 1
    Either using bacon just fried up (OR) saved bacon grease from your crock. Heat dressing ingedients (bacon grease, sugar & vinegar) to boil point atop the stove.
  • 2
    Heat to boiling point and pour over 1 1/2 quarts shredded lettuce, 3 green onions, chopped and bacon crumbles (if you prefer). Add salt and pepper to taste. Toss to mix.
  • 3
    Serve at once, otherwise you get grease globs atop your lettuce, onion and bacon.
  • 4
    NOTE: This is copied as written, so for the 1 1/2 Quarts of shredded lettuce, spinach or greens, you will just have to 'eyeball' it or try to measure out in a quart jar. Just sharing as written out, play around with this, change up ingredients for salad, etc. Make it your own and enjoy! Thanks, Diana
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