Wilted Lettuce Salad w/ Hot Bacon Dressing (aka Killed Lettuce & Kilt Lettuce) - a mountain recipe
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- Wilted Lettuce Salad with Hot Bacon Dressing
8 ounce box leaf lettuce
6 slices of fried bacon, reserve bacon grease
1/2 of a small sweet onion, thinly sliced into half circles
Generous pinch of salt, to taste
Generous pinch black pepper, to taste
2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
1 tablespoon sugar
Begin with well-dried leaf lettuce.
Cut bacon into small pieces and fry. DO NOT discard the grease.
While the bacon is frying, thinly slice the onion into half circles.
In a large bowl, add the lettuce and onions.
Place fried bacon pieces in bowl with the lettuce and onions.
While the bacon grease is still hot, stir in the apple cider vinegar and the sugar. Once combined and still hot, pour over the lettuce, onions and bacon. Toss together. The lettuce will wilt considerably.
Serve immediately. Serves 2-3 people.
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I am 80 years old and I learned to make this salad in Jr.High,I still make it and I still love it. Gloria.
Hello, Gloria. It's nice to hear from you. We really enjoy this salad a lot. It's definitely a tried-and-true favorite. Thank you so much for watching our channel. It's great having you with us.
I really enjoy your channel. I especially like the way Tom has everything ready, and adds the ingredients in order one at a time. It is so easy to follow. But did I miss something? What makes the lettuce “wilted”? When Tom was eating the salad, I could hear a crunchy sound. I really want to try it, but I don’t know how to wilt it. Thanks to both of you for your hard work, and for sharing! Jane
A day without bacon is like a day without sunshine….
me in a nutshell..I feel like a piece right now 🍽
You two are so funny. But understandable. 😀
Amen❤❤❤
Don't forget turn your burner off, I was so scared you would have caught your kitchen towel on fire. Love this recipe will be trying thanx for sharing 😊
Thanks for looking out for us.
This recipe makes me miss my Mom. She used to make it and I loved it❤❤❤
Same here!
Oh man, I haven’t had this salad for decades ……it will be one that I make soon. Often those “Old” recipes are the best, but often forgotten. Please continue to show some of the old recipes.
We agree that the oldies are sometimes the best! They have certainly withstood the test of time. We appreciate that you are watching our channel. Thanks so much for joining us at the table.
My grandma used to make this! I remember her being in her garden picking tender lettuce leaves and green onions to use in her salad. She added just a small amount of buttermilk to her dressing. She lived to be 102 years old. She was a dear Christian lady. Thank you for bringing such dear memories to mind through your recipe!
We love that this brought sweet memories to your mind. Thanks for letting us know about your darling grandmother! 102 years old! Incredible! We really appreciate that you are watching our channel.
Yummmm like the sound of adding the buttermilk!
We don't have use sugar in this salad just bacon grease 😋
I love love love kilt lettuce. I make it every spring with leaf lettuce from my neighbor’s garden. Last year I grew my own leaf lettuce. I have been desperate enough at times to use iceberg lettuce. My grandmother made it in the spring and summer as long as the lettuce lasted in the garden. We always had green onions in the garden too which also went in the kilt lettuce. I’m in Northeast Tennessee. Now I’m going to have to make me some. I always had it with soup beans fried potatoes and cornbread. Man I could eat a gallon right now. Thanks for the memory Tom. Love you and Melissa doing all these homey recipes. Thanks again.❤️ I’m crying now.
Did you also eat fried pumpkin or squash blooms?
@@mlargent2003 No I haven’t heard of that
Tom don’t you just love how your food and your memories touch us. It so dear. I just loved how this simple salad took so many of us back to our childhood and our grandmothers. Much love to you and Melissa.
My mom made kilt lettuce all summer long. She made her's with lettuce, green onion, and bacon grease, and that is how I make mine. If I don't have bacon grease and have to fry some up, I will put the bacon in. My mom's family had West Virginia roots, but was raised in Ohio. Dad was from Virginia.
It was at the moment that Mom put the vinegar in the skillet with the bacon grease that I knew what we were having for supper. That smell said, “Supper’s ready!” Yum!
Love to see so many folks reference the memories associated with this recipe because it's a big memory for me as well. Mom never made this when we were kids, but after we had all moved out, this became something she'd regularly make for her and dad on Wednesday evenings before heading out for church services. To my memory, she only made it one time for me after dad had passed away, and I loved it. Thank you so much for this video.
That is such a great story. We really appreciate that you shared it with us. We think it's a nice salad and we hope you will try our recipe and enjoy it like we do. Thanks for watching our channel.
@@comesitatmytable9044l love you guys so much. Your channel is wonderful as well as the two of you. Don't remember having wilted lettuce in upbringing, but had an Aunt that made a salad that we loved. Just lettuce, tomato and onion with mayonnaise stirred in, and a sprinkle of sugar. You would eat it as though you were starving, even though there was a full meal waiting for you. Thanks for sharing.
I totally understand that reaction. Sometimes foods are just so good you can't seem to get enough.
I’ve had a recipe for wilted lettuce salad with a warm bacon grease vinaigrette for a long time. I grew up with a can of bacon grease next to the sink. I still have a jar of bacon grease in my refrigerator. I also remember going foraging with my dad. Wild leeks, dandelion leaves, plantain leaves. My great grandmother made her own medicinal remedies from foraging. Birch bark tea for headaches is one I remember. Too bad it’s not a thing we do now. 🇨🇦🇨🇦
Those remedies served people well! They knew what they were doing, that's for sure. Thank you so much for watching our channel. We really do appreciate it.
I am a retired secondary math teacher from West Portsmouth, OH. I grew up in the 1940's and 1950's during some hard times. We had wilted greens often. My mother and a neighbor gathered wild greens (dandelions, watercress and a few others). I helped them gather greens; however, I do not know which ones to gather without their help. We had this often in early spring when greens were young and tender. Mom used the same ingredients that you used, and additionally she added sliced boiled eggs on occasion and my favorite-- small sliced boiled potatoes. She sliced eggs and potatoes fairly thinly. It requires a bit of extra bacon dressing when adding potatoes. We also had wilted lettuce sometimes as well, just as you made it, but with a few more onions. It was a whole meal for us. My, I looked forward to it. Your videos are just "the best"! By the way, this is my first TH-cam comment ever on any site. Thanks for the memories and great recipes. Garnet
My dad would go out to the creek and gather watercress for salads. Mama used bacon grease and saved her leftovers also. I have a photo of dad in the creek with his pants legs rolled up and watercress in his hand. So great how a simple salad brings us back home as you stated. Thanks for this wonderful recipe. Now I've got to make it.😄
I love that you have that picture! What a treasure! My grandmother would walk through the field and along the creek with a paper "poke" (bag) to gather creasy greens and watercress. That's what she almost always used for this salad. I treasure the memories of walking with her as she gathered greens for dinner.
Kilt lettuce is what Celebrating Apalachia says when she makes it. If you haven't seen her channel she is wonderful. My parents and grandparents made this. Y'all are awesome. Thanks for sharing.
We've heard this salad referred to as kilt lettuce a lot. Thank you for the kind words. We really appreciate that you are watching our channel.
Love Tipper and her family!
My aunt always was your lettuce and then she said that the bacon wilts the lettuce and then she puts her onions and her vinegar and the other stuff that you want to put in your salad it’s up to you, but what she mainly did was use the bacon grease to the lettuce
Wilted lettuce salad was a Spring dish. Dad's version had leaf lettuce, mustard greens and green onions (thinly sliced). The only thing in the dressing portions was searing hot bacon grease. This brought back a lot of memories.
My mother made Wilted Lettuce when I was a child. She would stack leaf lettuce leaves and slice them crosswise, put them in a bowl and add sliced green onions. She used bacon grease and vinegar for dressing, maybe a little salt, but no sugar. It's so good with cornbread, which we always had with it. She also picked field greens in the Spring to cook, but I wouldn't have any idea what to pick.
Yes, as a Hoosier, we grew up eating Wilted Lettuce, a spring staple. Very similar to your recipe except Mother used 'spring onions' instead of Vidalia.
My grandma, mom, motherinlaw all made great wilted lettuce. I had forgotten all about it. I'm going to get the ingredients and make some. YUMMY!
I live in Texas now, but I was born in Kentucky. Yes, I was raised also on the salad. At our house, it was simply called Lettuce and Onions. My mother didn't add the bacon necessarily but I do. Thank you for sharing your version of this wonderful meal.
As a kid, I would not eat wilted lettuce, when Mom would make it. When I finally grew up and dared tried stuff I would not eat as a kid, wilted lettuce was one of the dishes I truly loved. Another thing I would not eat as a kid was fried green tomatoes, now, I can't wait for a green tomato to come on so I can eat them to my heart's content. Thanks for bringing an old timey recipe to light for those that may never have tried this.
My mom always added 2-3 hard boiled eggs.
My West Virginia Granny made this too! She would make it with leaf lettuce but she would have us all out in the yard picking dandelions and she made it with that too. My PA Dutch grandpa would make what I would call a thick hot bacon dressing something like the dressing on German potato salad and pour that over the lettuce. Thanks for the childhood memories!!
Yes! I ate and learned to make the PA Dutch version from my mom. I just made some a couple weeks ago.
Oh my word... This made my mouth water just looking at it... I LOVE THIS .. My grandma used to make it for me when I was a kid...way back when.. lol.We always called it Kilt lettuce...
I'm from Pennsylvania not far from the PA Dutch area. My Mom taught me to make it just like her mom taught her. In this area it is called Hot Lettuce. I was the first born grandchild in our family and once my mom passed away all my Aunts and Uncle would get me to make it for them. The only difference is that we add a sliced hard boiled egg to the salad and a beaten egg to the dressing now you had to be careful to temper the beaten egg with some of the bacon grease before adding to the rest of the dressing ingredients or you could end with scrambled eggs in your salad. I really enjoy all your recipes and how you explain everything to us.
I like hard boiled egg in mine also. The beaten egg in the dressing is something I am going to try next time I make this salad, I'm sure it would thicken it a little. Yum, yum!
That's my favorite salad from my childhood thank you so much
Can’t I just come over and have dinner with you and the Mrs.? I fell in love with the chicken and stuffing bake !!! Keep on cookin’!
We'd love to have you! We appreciate so much that you are watching our channel. Thanks for joining us at the table.
My son LOVED that chicken and stuffing!!
We are so happy to hear this!
Tom thank you for this recipe..my grandma put it over fresh spinach...this might be her dressing recipe..can't wait to try it..❤❤
This is one my sweet Mother has always made at least three times a week. Always on Holidays. My brother named it grease salad. I use Vegan bacon. Tom and Melissa , hope you both are doing well. Thank you 😊 😊
Mustard, young dandelion leaves, plantain.
♥️Thank You so much for this recipe! (My Dad loved this!) My Dad He Built and Owned and Operated His Own Service Station from 1928 until 1972!
Your Precious
Grandparents!
Wow your dad saw a lot of technology develop in his time
Mom always served this up just as a salad and the bacon grease was on the table in a gravy boat. I could make myself sick on this. Good memory, thanks.
This is definitely comfort food… love it!!!! Mom always served this with soup beans and fried potatoes!!!!
This was one of my dad's favorites. He would have me make it for him all the time. Thank you. I had to smile as I watched you make it. I could smell the bacon and vinegar.
Looks like German potato salad(swapping spuds w/lettuce).
Your wilted lettuce brings back so many memories. My mother would go to the garden, pick the lettuce, and make the lettuce like you do except use bacon grease with no bacon. I will be 85 this year but I still remember the good old recipes, thank you, Tom and Melissa. Love your show.
I grew up in Wisconsin. Granny made a different wilted lettuce. We didn't grow up eating a salad at meals--at all, just meat and potatoes and a canned vegetable. I didn't realize we were poor and didn't have much money for food. I do remember being told to eat everything on our plate and let nothing go to waste. Because we rarely at lettuce, the purchased lettuce would start to go bad before it was even used. Granny would pick off the bad pieces of head lettuce, cut up the other leaves into tiny pieces and place into a bowl. In a separate bowl, she'd mix half n half with some white vinegar and a little bit of sugar (it was a little sweet and vinegary flavor); and pour that over the lettuce and toss; cover and refrigerate it until dinner. We typically had this lettuce during lent. Granny also served it with a can of salmon, opened and poured into a separate bowl. I was a picky eater, but I did like this cold lettuce on a hot summer day.
This is the same type of dressing used for German potato salad. You can also stir this dressing into cooked vegetables. The bacon and the sweet sour makes it wonderful on a variety of veggies!
My 78 yr old husband grew up with wilted lettuce salad. His mother would use arugula, Swiss chard, spinach, dandelion greens, etc., thinly sliced radishes, and hard boiled eggs. He has recently been talking about it so guess I need to make some for him. 😊
I live in Southeastern Ohio about 40 minutes from the West Virginia border in two directions. I have a funny family story about wilted lettuce. In 1955 my father was in London England for the Navy, where he worked at the U.s. embassy. He ate at the restaurant around the corner which was the Italian restaurant owned by my uncle where my mothe waited tables. My mother was petite, beautiful, kind and loving and my father and she dated and married in London in 1956 . In the fall of 1957 my mother was approximately 7 months pregnant and had to return to the United States to meet my paternal grandparents in New York because in those days you couldn't fly if you were very late in your pregnancy because at that time propeller planes took 12 hours to get across the ocean. My dad still had several months to go on his enlistment so my mother had to go alone to a new country to meet strange people in a huge city to return to my Father's hometown in rural Ohio. After being picked up at the airport and after several hours of driving towards home, my grandparents stopped for the night in a hotel. My mother was exhausted and starving and was hoping that they would go out for dinner and then she could go to bed. But my grandmother brought into the room an electric skillet and some groceri my mother a dish of wilted lettuce with bacon vinegar and sugar dressing,( Mind you, this is 1957 so homemade Italian pasta and Italiansalad had not yet hit the smaller more rural communities in the midwest like they had in New York City and other major cities. This greasy sugary vinegary wilted lettuce was my grandmother's idea of the salad to be served with the canned pasta.!!my mother begged off the meal.claiming extreme tiredness because even though she was starving hungry, the room reeked of vinegar and bacon grease and my Grandpa's pipe. Needless to say, my mother begged off the meal stating that she was tired from the travel and excused herself to bed to cry herself to sleep, missing her husband, her beloved London,, and her siblings and family. Fortunately for my mother, they did go out to breakfast the next morning where my mother was able to eat a huge pancake breakfast which she enjoyed very much ! Many years later, my mother confessed to my grandmother, just how ghastly her first American meal was LOL. They both had a good laugh over it. Let's just suffice it to say that wilted lettuce never graced a plate in my home and I have never in my life tried it LOL!!! I so enjoyed this video, and smiled through the entire thing remembering my mother and her story. Thank you for making this dish.
I enjoyed seeing you make (wilted) lettuce!
I grew up having this. I continue to make the way my mom did.
It was always made with head lettuce,onion and she would heat up vinegar, bacon grease, sugar, salt and pepper…. Then pour over the lettuce.
I have not put bacon pieces on mine … but I will be trying that …. I live with my daughter and we were just saying …. I need to fix some. So handing down to daughter and grandkids.
Thank you for sharing and making my mouth water!!!
Also we always liked to have pork chops and fried potatoes
We had that in our family too! Sadly you only get it during the spring when lettuce was in our garden as we always had the Simpson black seeded lettuce in the Spring. I never thought of using leaf lettuce. I will be doing this recipe!
Your version reminds me of German Potato Salad 🙂.
Anyone else hollerin' at Tom to turn that burner off? That was left on way too long for my comfort. Made me kinda nervous.
LOL! It was fine. It was on low and I turned it off as soon as we finished the video. Thanks for your concern.
@@tomwyant9297 Hey, can't have anything happening to two of our favorite people on TH-cam.
@@bowed305, that's sweet of you! We appreciate your support.
I am 83yo and grew up in SW Virginia (Gate City).
I ate this nearly daily in the spring. Mom called it Killed Up Lettuce. She cooked it with whatever she had, usually her lettuce bed, garden onions and salt pork from the smoke house. I don’t remember us having bacon. I watched her cook the dressing and immediately put it on the table and served it with soup beans and cornbread.
Wonderful meal!!!
A fav of Spring and Summer, thanks
We used mustard greens from the garden. So good.
Oh, this recipe brings back so many memories of my dear Mom and also my dear Grandma who both made this wonderful salad! Mom would send me out to our garden which I helped my sweet Dad plant and pick a mess of lettuce and a green onion and I was so proud that Mom served it for dinner! She added cut up tomatoes to the top. Thanks for the memories!!
You are so welcome. We are so grateful to have you watching our channel.
Hi Tom and Melissa,
My husband is the baker, known especially for his pies. I do the cooking. While watching you cut anything on a cutting board, he will say, " I need to tell Tom to dampen a paper towel and put it under that cutting board to keep it from sliding around." That is the reason for my message today. Though I must say, we both love wilted bacon salad.
We too are retired and fellow believers in Christ. We retired from Mount Vernon Nazarene University.
God bless you both! ❤
Born and raised in S.C. Never heard of this till I was married and we met a family from Huntington, W.V. They served this to us and it quickly became a favorite. Thanks for a wonderful memory.
My sweet Mom was born in Morgantown West Virginia, moving to Hays, KS when she married. She made this salad almost the same as you do, Tom. I loved it then and love it now. Precious memories.
Oh, also, I make it with baby spinach also. Good!
@@sharonwood8936I bet that is yummy!
My moma used to pour this over shredded cabbage and onions. It was pretty good with pinto beans and cornbread. Sure wish I could sit at her table again. Miss you moma♥
Your recipes take me home to my mama. I'm 81 years old and have been cooking like my Mom all my life. I make the wilted lettuce recipe just like you and my Mom. It's delicious! Thank you for taking me home. Barbara Thomas, Columbus Ohio
Our home- ec teacher taught us to make this in the 70's with this exact recipe! I've always loved it.
Thank you for memories of my mom she loved it. She cooked her onions with the bacon
You need to write a cookbook…I watch all your video, but this one hit home as well as cornbread dressing. I’m 82 and could listen to you all day. Please do a cookbook. I can only imagine you as a awesome teacher. Your a amazing team,God bless you both.
I’m from Texas, born and raise, but moved to West Virginia and was lucky enough to enjoy this recipe. We had a garden with different kinds of lettuce and I would make this every time our lettuce was ready to be picked. I’m back in Texas and haven’t had it since but thought about it so now I must have it! Thank you for your video!
Such a good salad! My next favorite summer treat is 'mater sammiches ( vine ripe tomatoes with mayo on white bread). Creasy greens are often in creeks...water cress.
I can remember my mother making this with lettuce out of the garden, spring onions and hot oil and vinegar and putting a plate over it so it would wilt. We would have cornbread with it and it was so good. I have made it one time with store bought lettuce and it was ok but not like mother made. I enjoy watching you so much and all of your amazing recipes. This one brings back so many memories.
My mom used to get dandelion greens out of the yard to add to the garden lettuce. She also used a bit of milk in her grease as well. It is the best summer salad ever! 😊
It is also really good with spinach as well.
Egg and mushrooms. Yum 😋
I love wilted lettuce salad! About 30 years ago a coworker shared her recipe with me! It is exactly like yours! I haven’t made it in a long time! I need to make it again soon! It is delicious! Love your channel! ❤❤
This brought memories of foraging many years ago with my Mom and my Aunt finding greens to eat and I grew up on them in many forms. Eating them...drinking juice made from them and so on. I would love to be able to do that myself, but I never gave thought to remember them as one thinks they will always remember....but not so for me. Blessings
Thanks for sharing with us Tom and Melissa. I started eating the wilted lettuce salad in S E OHIO when I was 8 yrs old and to this day still love it , that was 71 years ago when I started. When Dandy Lions were available they were also added in. Brought back memories for me too. Stay safe and keep up the great recipes. Fred.
OMG Im from wva also and I grew up with welted lettuce. My grandmother made that all the time especially for me cause I absolutely love this.
Memories! 😢 Staying at grandmas every summer. I loved this salad. My favorite part was the vinegar. I was against the sugar my dad always put on his. lol 🎉❤ You guys always make me cry, love it. We used side pork but it's the same thing. Please don't ever stop making these videos. You are always welcome on my tv😊😊
You are so kind and your words encourage us very much! We love having you at the table with us.
I am 77 yrs. old and I grew up on this and I still make it. We love it
I am 76 years old and the "wilted lettuce" salad was a staple with the leaf lettuce and onions coming from the garden, freshly picked, and the hardboiled egg(s) coming from the chicken coop. This was a family favorite with the bowl always licked clean! Mom also put bacon in her salad too. Delicious!
Never heard of this 😮🤔 something new to try
That is EXACTLY how Mom made wilted lettuce. The smell, when the vinegar hit the hot bacon grease would immediately trigger intense hunger! 😂. The bowl of wilted lettuce was the last serving dish to be put on the table and was always put between where Jen and I sat. It was a lucky day if it was our turn to say the blessing, because we could time it perfectly so that we were the first to grab that bowl. We always got the warning, “Leave some for everyone else!” We never had to worry about leftovers!
In southwest virginia my family called it scalded lettuce. We ate it alot in the summer time too.
I have special memories of meals at my grandparent's house also. What a blessing.
Yum! I went out to the garden & picked fresh lettuce and green onions to make this for dinner tonight! An Appalachian channel I watch makes kilt lettuce often. Yours, with the bacon, sold me on this.😋🥬🥓
I'm almost 70 and this brings back memories from my childhood in West Tennessee. My momma made it with just the lettuce green onions and salt, of course the bacon grease. Momma always had cornbread with hers and it was one of my favorite dishes in the spring and summer. I love your channel. Always brings back lots of memories.❤❤
My husband's mom Dorothea made this. It was my husband's favorite, so I made it for him often. He affectionately calls it " Rotten Lettuce". Dorothea was a city girl and only used Iceburg Lettuce. She used a tablespoon of sugar on it, sprinkled on right after pouring the dressing.
Thanks for sharing!
I'm 75 years young. I grew up eating wilted lettuce. It was delicious. Thank you for reminding me. I enjoy all of your videos
I haven't had this in ages. My mom never made it but about all of the older folks here in AL and MS did. One great aunt would sometimes make it using country ham they cured and smoked themselves. She would fry it and cut it up and put it in the salad. I think she added some bacon grease to the drippings to make the dressing with. It was delicious. I've had it made all different ways and like you, I like having bacon in it. I have never made it because no one in my family would eat it but after watching you, I see this would be easy to make enough just for me. This would be a great low carb side dish or even a snack for me. Back in the day I remember all of my grandparents and even my mom keeping bacon grease either in a grease can next to the stove or a container in the fridge. They would often season vegies and scrambled eggs with it when they didn't have some kind of meat to put in it. My granny always rubbed a little bacon grease on top of her biscuits before baking them. Yummy.
My Grandma up in the country in Central Missouri used to make this all the time. Picked her own lettuce too. Yum
I grew up on this salad when my grandma made it. Can't believe I haven't made it as an adult. ❤
My Mom and Dad used to make Wilted Lettuce as they called it, and they used green onions ! My Dad built lettuce beds and planted green onions around the edge and when the lettuce was ready , so was the small green onions every spring , first things out of the garden . And they ate it all summer long !! Thanks for precious memories!! Blessings to you both , from Greeneville Tn .
Mymother used to use mustard greens in hers. We calle it Wlte Lettuce & musstard salad. It was SO good. Thanks for posting this!
Like many, my grandmother made this. Which is how I got to try it - it was so good. Oddly, her daughter, who's my mom, rarely made it. Grandma made it with vinegar & sugar - she was from WI.
When I was young, my dad had a huge garden. The first vegetables that came in were lettuce, green onions, and radishes. Kilt salad made with those ingredients, plus bacon grease, vinegar, a little sugar and chopped bacon, was something we ate several times a week. I still keep my grease in a jar in the fridge.
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I am 63 years old and have not had this since my mom made it when I was a child. She would use lettuce, spring onions and bacon/ bacon grease. My sister and I called it greasy green stuff but we loved it. I have not thought about this dish in years
My mom made this and I loved it, it was wilted lettuce. She was from W. VA. SHE DID THE VINEGAR AND ONIONSmy W. Va neighbor grew creesy greens in his garden and they went wild and grew everywhere. Very invasive.
My grandmother would walk in the fields with a brown paper "poke" (a bag) and gather creasy greens for this salad. She'd also walk along the creek and gather watercress. Great memories!
My dad in California, Kentucky used to make this salad thank for posting
✍Hello Tom and Melissa...My dad was born in 1914 in Philippi W.Virginia. When I was growing up in the 40-50s not my mom but my dad would make Wilted Lettuce (never heard my dad call it killed lettuce)or even make it with Dandelion Greens (that came from an open field (where he and I would go pick them) My dad always had a garden and he would grow Leaf Lettuce. That lettuce is what he used to make the Wilted Lettuce. I wasn't too crazy about it. I was a very picky eater but, to look at me today you wouldn't think so ha ha ha !! I've always saved my bacon grease to use in my cooking, especially in green beans. I've started fixing bacon in the oven and don't think I'll ever go back to frying it. I just recently treated myself to a new "Pioneer Woman" bacon grease container and it comes with a strainer that's removable. A mandolin will make it easier to cut very thin slices of vegetables. For those people who thought using the bacon grease was horrible, they need to know its no different from using olive oil and vinegar for a salad dressing but everything goes better with bacon. Thanks for sharing and bringing back some old memories for me. Good Night😴 God Bless LuvYa! Bye from Ohio🌹
I'm just like you. The first time that I remember eating this was at my grandmothers house. A.K.A. Granny. I loved when Granny fixed wilted lettuce. And I still love it today. That is just happiness to me..!!!! My aunt calls this old fashioned southern cooking. And that's my favorite. , because that's what I grew up eating. And I still cook this way. One thing for sure. , you were right when you called bacon drippings liquid gold.!!!! Thank you so much for this video. 💙💚💛🧡❤
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My Bigmama and my mama made this salad and I loved it! Thanks for the reminder!
In my family this is called "mess". My grandmother would make mess in the springtime with her garden bib lettuce and green onions. She also added chopped crisp bacon and chopped fried eggs and then the bacon grease. This is still one of my favorite meals and I always think of her when I make it. We always serve it with hot buttered cornbread and a tall glass of sweet ice tea. 😋
From South Carolina living in Arizona 5 years. Never heard of wilted lettuce until a week or 2 ago when Tipper on celebrate Appalachia made it for dinner.I’m 77 and still learning.
I grew up on wilted lettuce!! Love it!! Mom made fried pork chops and fried potatoes with it.
The way she taught me:
Leaf lettuce from our garden enough for a large bowl. Wash in the sink and drain. I use a salad spinner.
8 chopped green onions in the bowl.
8 slices if bacon , cut up and fried in a cast iron skillet. 1/2 cup sugar and a teaspoon of salt , both added to the bowl.
Fry the bacon till crispy. Pour vinegar in the skillet and quickly pour into the bowl and immediately lay the hot skillet on top of the lettuce mixture. This "wilts" the lettuce. Using a heavy spatula, chop😂 everything together. It is ready to eat!!! YUMMY!! Just had some today. My husband doesn't like it, so it is all mine!!
My mom used to make this for the family for dinner,i love wilted lettuce ! She used leaf lettuce,bacon , bacon grease, sugar, vinegar, green onions, and a chopped boiled egg. Thank you for this video! It brings back great memories!
My grannie (from WV) made this except she made hers with spinach, dandelion greens and kale. Otherwise, it is the exact same recipe.
Tom, I also forgot to tell you those canning jars can be used in a freezer with no compromise to the jar. You also can freeze bacon grease and it keeps for much longer time you choose to.
Melissa and Tom! I’m 65 and never heard of this. Wow.
Definitely gonna try it! Thx.
Tom thank you for sharing your family memories. Blessing🙏🏻
Thank you for sharing, when I made Wilted Lettuce, I always used Way too much apple cider vinager , now I know 2 teaspoons, I definitely will make again. I am now 72 years young and wilted lettuce was always my favorite. Debby from Kansas City Mo
My friend this is going to the top of our lunch and dinner menu delicious. I love it when you see a new recipe that you would never dream of would go together so great at handling the food and speaking to us in clarity that we all can understand and it doesn’t go without saying Melissa wow you have some talent with that camera girlfriend, I love how you zoom in and out and so soft and slow thank you for all the time and effort that you put into our benefit. You are the best your friend Wendy, Salt Lake City, Utah.
I did eat wilted lettuce salad. My Grandmother who lived across the street made it a lot. She was a born and raised Texan and she did know what greenery to pick and eat. Thank you for your recipes.
Memories!