Wilted Lettuce Dressing

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WILTED LETTUCE DRESSING


Peggy’s adaptation of a James Beard recipe

Ingredients

  • 4 – 6 slices bacon or salt pork cut into small dice
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 1/3 cup vinegar
  • 1 tsp mustard
  • Salt optional
  • 2 tbsp or moe chopped onion optional
  • 1 hard-boiled egg optional

Directions

  1. Cook the bacon/salt4 pork in a frying pan.
  2. Transfer cooked meat to a paper towel.
  3. Fold paper towel over and break bacon into small pieces with spoon.
  4. Add sugar, vinegar, mustard, and salt to fry pan and liquid from bacon.
  5. Swirl ingredients to blend well and simmer till the sugar is dissolved.
  6. Add onion and chopped hard-boiled egg if desired.
  7. Add bacon into the liquid.

This dressing is excellent served over lettuce of your choice. My favorite was over butter crunch or similar soft leaf lettuce. The above picture shows the dressing mixed into a bowl of potatoes, cooked, peeled, and diced finely – also a tasty delight.

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