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My Mom's Wilted Lettuce
"This was my ma's recipe passed on to me--don't know any other way to make it and I'm 58 years old. This is really an old-fashioned dish."
photo by LucyS-D
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
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6
ingredients
- 1 head leaf lettuce
- 4 -5 green onions
- salt
- pepper
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Dressing
- 1⁄2 cup bacon grease
- 1⁄2 cup vinegar
- 1⁄4 cup water
- 1 tablespoon sugar
directions
- Wash the lettuce several times; drain.
- Clean and cut the onions into the lettuce.
- Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste.
- Dressing: Heat dressing ingredients to boiling; pour over lettuce while boiling hot.
- Stir and mix well.
- Serve immediately.
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Reviews
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I luv this. Our recipe is a little different. It's a meal within itself, almost. We cook bacon until crisp. Boil a potato and cut up. Add asparagus (canned) and chopped boiled egg. mix all together and add the heated bacon/vinegar dressing. -
We make ours a little differently here in the Ozarks - we scramble a couple of eggs and mix in with the greens before adding the dressing. We also don't use the sugar. My mom always makes this when she makes fresh deep-fried white or black bass. She serves with pan-fried potatoes and cornbread! It's a traditional family meal. Thanks for posting! -
Yep, this is the ole' fashion recipe ladies. Real close but not completely correct. My mom only used 'Black Seeded Simpson' lettuce from our garden.
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This is so good. Just like my Mom makes. I added diced cooked bacon to mine.
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This is the type of wilted lettuce I grew up on. Perfect recipe. Thank you for submitting.
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I loved when my mom made this stuff... I have made it several times but tried to switch some things a little, I didn't use as much viniger and added more buttermilk, I also added boiled eggs and cottage cheese....omg I can't make it any different now because those 2 ingredients topped it off! I hope maybe you all might try and like it because I sure did
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Darlene Summers
Carterville, Illinos
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I am Married to the same guy for 40 years,I Have 2 beautiful Daughters, who have given me 6
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I love to cook,in fact you could call it my favorite hobby
My pet peeve is telemarketers,Every time I get busy with my recipe hobby one of them will call and knock me off the web,and of coarse I waste precious time getting back on.I am disabled,so I no longer work,and have plenty of time to pursue my hobby.
My best dish I make is Lasagna but thats just because I love lasagna.I am also asked to bring No-Bake cookies at all of our potlucks, and linger-longers at church.Meat loaf is another often requested dish I am asked to bring...... NOT MY meatloaf but .... My husbands.
He is as good a cook as I am,He can cook anything I can cook, and I can cook anything he can cook,but some things I make better,and some He makes better...So we do a lot of compromising at our house.
