Ma's Turnip Greens

Southern Style Soul Food Greens

• Ready In: 40 mins
• Serves: 8
• Yields: 12 cups

Ingredients

• 1  bushel  turnip greens
• 1⁄2 lb  of old salt pork, bacon (FatBack)
• 1⁄2 cup bacon grease
• 2  red pepper pods, broken into
•  salt and black pepper
• 8  fluid ounces boiling water

Directions

1. Wash the greens in cold water.
2. Chop Pork Bacon into 1/2" cubes.
3. In a large pot add your pork bacon and bacon grease. Cook until bacon starts to turn brown.
4. Add water into the pot with the pork bacon. Bring to a boil.
5. Add green into the pot. As the greens cook down add the red pepper pods, salt and black pepper.
6. Cook to your desire tenderness.