Wilted leaf lettuce salad

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.

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Wilted Lettuce

'I remember my grandmother making this wonderful 'wilted' salad with leaf lettuce from her garden and serving it with a creamy dressing,' recalls Rose Shawyer of Otterbein, Indiana.

Most of us “baby-boomers” grew up with this from our mother’s or grandmother’s garden. Leaf lettuce grew abundantly in their gardens, regenerating itself after it was picked until the hot weather did it in for the summer. We ate it either “wilted” or “creamed”, and we never seemed to tire of it. It’s a crisp, refreshing salad, without the heaviness of any oils. Since it’s so hard to find true “leaf lettuce” anymore (and I’m no gardener), I tried this with romaine, since that green…

Wilted Lettuce Salad with Bacon Dressing

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