Community Pick
Wilted Lettuce Salad
"Sometimes simple is best. This is a wonderfully old fashioned salad that is very tasty and easy to prepare."
photo by Bergy
- Ready In:
- 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 4 slices bacon
- 1⁄4 cup cider vinegar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon pepper
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 8 cups torn leaf lettuce
- 1⁄2 medium onion, thinly sliced
- 1 hard-boiled egg, finely chopped
directions
- Fry bacon until crisp; drain (saving drippings) and crumble.
- Place lettuce in a large bowl.
- top with onion, egg, and crumbled bacon.
- In a skillet put bacon drippings, vinegar, salt, pepper and sugar.
- Heat to boiling.
- Pour over lettuce in bowl and toss.
- Serve immediately.
Questions & Replies
Got a question?
Share it with the community!
Reviews
-
I lost my recipe for wilted lettuce, and found a new one here. This one includes a hard boiled egg, which my husband loved, good recipe. -
An interesting concept of hot salad dressing. It was wonderfully delicious, yet so easy to prepare. I don't like the taste of raw onion, therefore I marinated the sliced onion in the vinegar mixture for a couple minutes. Removed the onion before boiling the mixture. I also used olive oil instead of bacon drippings. I sure will make this again. Thanks for sharing your recipe. -
I prepared this according to the directions. It was easy, but a little too salty for my taste. Without the added salt, I think this would be great.
-
Oh My Oh My , this was so good, We loved this delicious salad. It brought back so may memories, My Mom use to make this all the time when she had fresh lettuce in the garden,. I will be making this a lot. Thank you soooo much for posting it.
-
This recipe is excellent. Just the right amount of sweet and sour for our taste buds. Thanks for creating memories of fresh lettuce from the garden in the springtime. I used pre-cooked bacon to reduce the bad fat, and used olive oil to increase the fat content. It was delicious.
see 17 more reviews
Tweaks
-
YUMMY!!! This was a great change of pace salad. I made a single serving and following some tips from other reviews, changed it up a little. I made the low sodium bacon in the microwave on paper towels to decrease grease. I used Splenda instead of sugar and Olive OIl instead of bacon dripping, crumbling up 1/2 tsp of bacon crumbs in the dressing. I used leaf lettuce and baby spinach as well. This is a keeper! Thanks for posting! -
Very good salad. I had been craving leaf lettuce and thought this would be a great mix. I changed it just a bit. Instead of using fresh bacon, I used fresh bacon bits and brown sugar for the sugar. Since there would be no bacon fat, I put just a touch of olive oil in it and a few bacon bits to the dressing before heating. I topped the salad with chives, more bacon bits and hard-boiled egg. Yum - we liked it so much we're having it again tonight. I think I've found my new favorite salad. -
Used this as a base and made a few changes. I used baby spinach instead of lettuce, white vinegar, and had to triple the sugar. YUM! DH said it was better than he thought it would be. :) -
An interesting concept of hot salad dressing. It was wonderfully delicious, yet so easy to prepare. I don't like the taste of raw onion, therefore I marinated the sliced onion in the vinegar mixture for a couple minutes. Removed the onion before boiling the mixture. I also used olive oil instead of bacon drippings. I sure will make this again. Thanks for sharing your recipe.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Michelle S.
Racine, Wisconsin
