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Who likes it? I do and we have the first lettuce out of the garden tonight. Vinegar, sugar and bacon greese makes it awesome. Any different recipes out there?
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Don't need any other recipe. Haven't even turned the dirt over in the garden yet up here.
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I agree on the recipe. This is the way my Mom made it so I aint changin!! Early gardening is one benefit of living in the south
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Recipe sounds right from what I remember. Snow just left the garden. Planting in 6 to 8 weeks. 
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The recipe was right - I just got up from the table. My wife threw in some boiled eggs and some green onions we pulled yesterday, just for dessert. Good luck on the gardens
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Good thought on the eggs and onions!
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She's the brains of the operation.
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A few green onion and/or radish slices if you have them. Wifey puts the lettuce in a large bowl, pours over with the boiling vinegar, sugar, bacon grease, and a small amount of water sauce. She then covers with an upside down plate that will fit inside the bowl for a while.
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Wilted lettuce is just flat gooooooooood groceries.
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SUGV1,
you know it isn't nice to tease us like that! Heck we are still getting snow! It was 19 degrees here this morning!
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Sorry but it was goood. Nothing like it. we had bacon, lettuce sanwhiches, fried taters in bacon grease and the wilted lettuce. Needless to say, I wont need an oil change for a while. My BP is hitting tilt!! but, its gooood
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Please don't tell me the tomatoes were home grown 
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Any different recipes out there? Nope. Grandma, Mom and now my brother and I make it that way, but I have to admit, I like some thin sliced red onion thrown in there. Mike
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That's the same way my Grandma used to make Wilted Lettuce 50+ years ago when I was a little girl. She taught me how to make it. Still love it.
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Everything good for you topped by hot bacon fat...... Ain't America great!!! 
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Sorry but it was goood. Nothing like it. we had bacon, lettuce sanwhiches, fried taters in bacon grease and the wilted lettuce. Needless to say, I wont need an oil change for a while. My BP is hitting tilt!! but, its gooood That's all the stuff my Grandma did! Even put bacon grease and sugar on cold, leftover biscuits. Finally got to her. She died 3 days before her 95th birthday! Roundup
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We had it at least a week but we did add in chopped green scallions or spring onions. The dish was a staple along side pintos, fried potatoes and cornbread. In a good week we'd also have cubed steak.
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I've never heard of sugar or vinegar in it. Just lettuce, green onions and bacon grease...
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In my wife's recipe, I forgot to mention the bacon pieces are added. Lettuce, green onion. radish, and bacon.
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I still love wilted lettuce. (Really just got tired of seeing that baby steak ribs thing every time I checked in. )
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