Ma's Turnip Greens

Submitted by MS. CINDY

"Southern Style Soul Food Greens"

 

• Ready In: 40mins
• Ingredients: 6
• Yields: 12 cups
• Serves: 8

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.