Wilted Lettuce

Ingredients

• a good sized cupful of chopped bacon
• a dessert spoonful of salt
• a pinch of mustard
• a couple of tablespoonsful of granulated sugar
• good cider vinegar in quantity slightly in excess of the bacon fat
• a handful of green onions

Method

1. 1

   Fry bacon in a skillet, add salt, mustard, sugar, and vinegar.

2. 2

   Simmer until blended.

3. 3

   Serve over crisp lettuce and top with chopped green onions.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Stag Cook Book: Written for Men by Men (1922) by Carroll Mac Sheridan, page 30. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Wilted Lettuce: — It is said that this dish comes to us from the Hessians. If this be treason let us make the most of it. Having obtained the lettuce, young and tender and fresh from the patch, plucked before it is yet headstrcHig, toss it into a bucket of cold water to crisp it. Repairing to the kitchen, place on the hot stove a skillet and heave into it a good sized cupful of chopped bacon. Let it fry thoroughly. Add a dessert spoonful of salt, a pinch of mustard, a couple of tablespoonsful of granulated sugar and good cider vinegar in quantity slightly in excess of the bacon fat. Let it simmer smartly until well blended. Meanwhile lay out the lettuce in noble heaps on the plates on which it is to be served. Chop up a handful of green onions

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