Kilt, Kill, Killed, or Wilted Lettuce - A Traditional Appalachian Recipe

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

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[@yvonnemcmahan9037]

My mom and mamaw said the same thing to us.

[@brandons2486]

Yummy! My grandpa's recipe you use bacon, bacon grease brown sugar garlic minced and the onions it's the best give it a try!😉

[@brandons2486]

We call it wilted lettuce 🥬

[@brandons2486]

I almost forgot the vinegar

[@judithwilliams9432]

I bought a copy of the cookbook and have not received it.

[@norkyjune]

Here in Missouri my in-laws call it wilted lettuce and she always always puts a little vinegar in the drippings. Your plate of food looks heavenly!! I have a short story about beans. When I was little I did NOT like pinto beans. But when we went to my Aunt & Uncle’s house she’d have a big pot of pinto beans but the most wonderful pineapple upside down cake for dessert!! I had to eat the beans to get the cake. Well after a few times those beans didn’t taste so bad! I love pinto beans now and the memories they hold.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Carolyn-what a good memory 😀

[@lynnmaupin-simpson1215]

My family is from Missouri too. Maybe they migrated with your family. Wilted salad was my mom's favorite.

[@urbannanni5864]

I'm from Missouri too! All my 66 years. I'm sitting in a camper by a river in the Ozarks right now, waiting for the rain to stop. Ha, ha! But the bass have been biting good.

[@kathya739]

@@urbannanni5864 Tomato, Arkansas....dirt roads, watercress, fish, and cute baby turtles... Town's gone, gobbled up by the Mississippi, but the memories still linger:)

[@clancaster9410]

YES!!! I'm form MO and live in SC now but my grandma made this for my dad growing up and for me as well. I've made for some people here in SC and they absolutely LOVE it! The vinegar is key!

[@buffemill]

My daddy made wilted lettuce when I was growing up. He was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana. He would cook bacon and then use the bacon grease to pour over the lettuce. I never realized this was a mid-west or Appalachian dish until I saw this video. Thank you for the history lesson!

[@357bullfrog9]

Something I'd love to hear again is my momma saying. Y'all git back now I'm fixing to pour this hot grease over at lettuce

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

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[@dibutler9151]

@@CelebratingAppalachia Growing up in Alabama on the river, we had wild watercress done exactly the same way.

[@karenrogers2826]

I heard the same thing. Awwwww. Sure miss my granny and momma.

[@janelhopkinspierson9159]

Me too! Mom was from Linefork, KY and she loved wilted lettuce.

[@jeffp2411]

OH YES!!

[@Denisejohn65NailEd]

I’m from Pennsylvania up by Lake Erie and my mom always made wilted salad . I still do . We make a dressing using a little bacon cut up and cooked with onion . Then to that pan we add a little water , vinegar and sugar to the pan . Heat it . Then we pour the dressing on the salad . Yummy ! * I believe it’s a German recipe passed down .

[@intarc0giotto]

well it sounds very typical of the way people make potatoe salad here in palatinate germany. just instead of salad they use potatoes.

[@johncollinge619]

Now I see where the sugar might come in - as in regular dressing to balance the vinegar. As I've tried this, I prefer it "savoury".

[@johncollinge619]

@@intarc0giotto I'm more used to potato salad with mayonnaise, but I've made both, but only German-style can be served hot!

[@marciawalden]

Denise, that’s where I grew up…St. Marys, PA. 🙂

[@lilacsnroses3345]

@@intarc0giotto I'm Pennsylvania Dutch. Our people are from the black forest originally. My family makes a combination of both, I suppose. We always boil potatoes, then cut in large chunks and fry them until they get brown on two sides. This is the base for the lettuce and bacon dressing. It was one of my favorite meals. It was another cheap way to feed the family with just a little bacon, and things we grew in our garden. I may need to make it tonight!

[@kwil5379]

Never ate it with lettuce, but it was always on the table when the dandelions was in bloom

[@mom24boybarians]

I grew up in southern California without any "cultural" foods so there were a lot of things I'd never had. My boyfriend and I dropped in on his momma (they're from Arkansas) and she insisted we stay for dinner. It was biscuits & gravy and kilt salad. I had never heard of either. In fact, the only biscuits I had ever had were the kind in the tube. When biscuits & gravy were explained, all I could think was, "Flour, fat and milk poured over flour, fat and milk. How odd." And I figured the salad was just a salad. Then I saw her pouring the hot dressing (she added 1/4 c. vinegar and 1 tablespoon sugar) over the greens! What the heck?! Well, boyfriend was excited about the meal so I figured it couldn't be bad? It was all so good! Years later I married a different man with Arkansas heritage. I learned how to make fabulous, fluffy, tall, golden biscuits, creamy, rich and flavorful sausage gravy and usually I serve that with a kilt salad if we are having it for dinner.

[@JennylovesASMR]

Bizarre. I grew up in Southern California too & we have every kind of cultural foods here to enjoy. This was a new one to me although Marie calendars had a variation of it on a bed of fresh spinach, onions, with vinegar, sugar a bit of bacon grease & bacon crumbles with blue cheese & chopped eggs

[@phylliscrevison3488]

Just wonderin if you'all ever eat hominy or can it yourself ? I grew up on it , mustard greens , soup beans and cornbread , and cooked turnips and turnip greens. All my favorites. All my family is from Paintsville Kentucky. Born there but raised in Ohio. Love your videos ! Forgot about the canned beets my momma made ! Another favorite !😊

[@lavadawade4497]

Thank you for bringing back an amazing memory for me. My parents are from the Blue Ridge. I’m African American, Native American, Irish, and a mix of other regional nationalities from this area. Your channel truly brings a warm feeling of loving familiarity to my heart!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I'm so glad you enjoy our videos!!

[@mariebernier3076]

Where do you live now, if I may ask?

[@kelly1827]

Do you consider yourself Melungeon? I only recently learned about that group of people from an Appalachian TikTok creator I follow. So interesting to me, especially because I used to work in genetics.

[@weemodarfield1747]

My grandma used to always make wilted lettuce with cornbread and fried taters to go along with it, and sweet tea!☺️ We also enjoyed her fried poke 👍 She was always in the kitchen cooking something. Once they are gone you realize how special those kind of meals really are and how much you miss them. My grandmother passed away last September and her recipes were handed down to me, something I will treasure the rest of my life. ❤️

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Wow that is a true treasure 😀

[@judyklamp3002]

Mom was born in Kentucky and she made this all the time and called it wilted lettuce.

[@357bullfrog9]

Mine did too that and soup beans for supper

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you for watching Judy 😀

[@maryf3219]

My Mom was from Pennsylvania and made it like this. She also called it wilted lettuce.

[@podunkpretties]

That's what my parents and grandparents called it too. They too are from KY. Casey county. Mom was from Phil Hill and dad from Opossum Trot Holler. Both families moved here in the 50's.

[@markpfeiffer9367]

I grew up around my great grandparents. They were from Kentucky, and moved to Arizona in 1915. Gram always made what my mom called wilted lettuce salad. I remember how good it tasted.

[@shaunahuerta9597]

You have to slice up some fresh radishes from that early spring garden! Makes it beautiful AND scrumptious with a little heat or sweet depending on how you grow. I’ve seen this salad served in 5 star restaurants but never as good as my mommas! We ate this with fresh fried cat fish or squirrel and on a special catch day, snapping turtle. NK 🥰

[@AllenGoodman]

My mamaw used to make this and I loved it. I was just telling some folks at work the other day at work, I have heard it called scalded lettuce,wilted,kilt lettuce & onions. A pot of soup beans and some corn bread and as far as I'm concerned, you are eating like a king. Thanks for this, if anyone has never tried this, do yourself a favor, no excuses, we all just watched this kind lady show us how to do it, lol. 😎👍

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Allen-it is the best meal 😀

[@kathyd4421]

My mom would always put cold coffee in with the bacon grease and cook before pouring over the greens. I haven't seen anyone else do it that way...but it was really good.

[@aj529]

Had myself a very large bowl of Kilt the other night. Lettuce, toss with little apple cider vinegar. Onions and radish. Top with crumbled bacon, scald with bacon grease, toss and eat immediately. I love it. My dad always made this for us when I was a kid. It was hard waiting in the spring for the lettuce to get big enough.

[@josettekinsey5934]

That is the right way to make it❤

[@ezridr571]

My grandmother born in 1887 made the best kilt lettuce. She put hot grease on it with onion, bacon and sliced hard boiled eggs. Great for breakfast or dinner.

[@KarenInTx]

i grew up with "wilted lettuce" and I was always excited when mama made it. She learned from her mother. She made it with lettuce, green onion, bacon crumbles, salt and pepper, then poured the hot bacon grease over it and mixed it. It was the last thing she brought to the table because you had to eat it before it got cold. I have not seen or made it in years. You are rattlin my cage again lol My husband is from the north and he never heard of it. I guess I am going to let him taste a southern memory. Thanks again! God Bless! And I noticed that Katie did something new with her hair. Your girls are such beautiful ladies inside and out.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

😀 I appreciate you! Katie did get a new hair do-it sort of like I wore mine back in the 80s 😀

[@krishawkins8884]

My grandmother called it wilted lettuce. My sister and I were talking about it yesterday on Mother’s Day. We thought it was gone forever😩 I can’t thank you enough for sharing your knowledge and keeping traditional Appalachian cooking alive❤!

[@TexasScout]

When my mama made this, she didn’t have a big enough bowl in the kitchen to hold all we can eat. We called it will fit lettuce salad, and the only difference between ours and yours is that we used to break up the bacon and crumble it with the salad.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I've heard of other folks breaking up the bacon I need to try that 😀

[@dereklea1183]

We added bacon to the mix in Southeast Tennessee also. We simply called it lettuce and onions. My maternal grandmother would use hot bacon grease to wilt the lettuce then crumble the bacon and add it to the lettuce/onion mixture.

[@TexasScout]

@@dereklea1183 Exactly as my Mother did it.

[@Pamela_Gram]

I absolutely love this salad. I grew up eating that at my Aunts and grandma's house. Such great memories. I'm in my 60's now and still haven't ever made it myself.

[@reneebond777]

Wilted lettuce : lettuce, green onions vinegar, sugar , salt and pepper. Heat bacon grease and pour on lettuce mixture. That’s how my mom made hers in Missouri ❤️

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thanks for sharing!!

[@sandraheassan378]

My mom and her family grew up in Missouri as well and made it the same. However, they didn’t add sugar.

[@jeffstpete]

YES!! Growing up in Roanoke VA my Mom made this a lot. I live in FL now and I still make it. SOOO GOOD

[@robm9837]

I've realized that your videos provide me with the same type of comfort I felt when I was with my Mother's parents and their children and grandchildren. Thank you for that.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Rob-that is so nice. I'm glad and thank you!

[@serenalee2187]

My mom and I love watching your videos together - she just turned 90. My grandma was born in Louisiana - I can still remember her making kilt salad and how good it tasted ❤ she also made Chicken and Dumplings like you make them, too. Thanks for the great stories and recipes 😊

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

That is awesome!

[@lauradavis4691]

I just love this woman & her channel. She is always refreshingly genuine & brilliant. But more, she makes me feel like I’m home somehow. 🙏

[@brianhudson7822]

YES!!! I remember this well. Whenever my aunt and grandma made wilted lettuce they knew that they would be able to get me to eat salad when I normally would not. For me it was ALL about the rind off of the fatback that I loved to chew. It was a spring and summer dish for sure because we weren't allowed inside while the cooking was going on, and water would be handed to us through an open kitchen window. My grandmother and aunt also said that they had to watch their "stories" (soap operas). Life was so good and those memories are pure gold. Thank you for a wonderful video.

[@rosedwight4861]

Yes we had wilted lettuce growing up in WV. Early in the season Mother or Daddy would get a huge bowl of dandelion greens & that was the basic of the salad. U r right, nothing on this earth beats soup beans& cornbread. Please send my serving to OH.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

😀 It is the best of meals!

[@thegreatowl4912]

I too am from West Virginia. My Grammaw and Grandaddy would also pick fresh dandelion greens and wilt them with bacon grease, white vinegar and a bit of sugar. Glad to know others have experienced such wonderful things!

[@suemyers7685]

@@thegreatowl4912 dandelions (before bloom) were used in what we called dandelion greens. Mixture of finely chopped dandelions, chopped green onions, chopped boiled eggs, crumbled bacon and peeled hot boiled potatoes in bowl. Hot bacon fat grease, flour, salt c oooked in skillet like making gravy, later add apple cider vinegar, water. Pour hot mixture over bowl and stir. Salt again. Ever have that?

[@craftingontheporchwithbill]

My daddy called it wilted lettuce, cause it was after adding cider vinegar, green onions and hot bacon grease. We grew Black Seeded Simpson lettuce and yellow Ebeneezer onions from sets. Daddy's been gone quite a while now, but i still make wilted lettuce with the first pickings from my garden, and cook poke greens when they first come up. It lets me know I've beaten natural selection one more winter. I swear I can feel my dad standing behind me when I'm cooking this, making sure I'm doing it right. Thank you for another sweet memory, Tipper. God bless you and yours.

[@clrobinson1776]

I haven’t had wilted lettuce in a long time. Lettuce & green onions from my Daddy’s garden. Looked so good.

[@billsiliskie2518]

Wilted lettuce is one our early pleasures from the garden. Grew up on that and still loving it 67 years later.

[@EastSider48215]

I always heard it called wilted lettuce, and on the rare occasions my mom made it, she added a splash of vinegar and a sprinkle of sugar. I love it.

[@dspdjp1]

My mom made hers the same way... I couldn’t get enough of it. She used to break up the bacon and add that to it. Wilted lettuce!

[@michaelcoughlin8966]

@@dspdjp1 same here with the bacon bits added

[@bonniefordahl7065]

My Grandma was a Pennsylvania Dutch from Pottsville, Pa. She used to make wilted lettuce salad and that was always my favorite salad. Haven’t had it for ages - your video brought back so many great memories. Thank you❣️❣️❣️

[@TimUFL]

Grandma from Central Illinois called it wilted lettuce. The dressing was hot bacon sweet sour vinegar and sugar. Crispy Bacon crumbled into the wilted salad. YUM!

[@nanewby0855]

@Tim Lane I’m from Illinois also, on the west where it humps out and the Mississippi River runs east and west. My great grandma made it exactly like that and it was delicious! I haven’t made it for years but I will now! Yum!

[@tiffany123178]

My mother did this once in awhile. I loved it. I miss my mother’s cooking. Loved the bean soup mostly. Wish I paid more attention to her cooking when I was growing up.

[@kathysunshine699]

This made me homesick!... but thank you for sharing and reminding me of the garden, that I grew up in, at my grandparents farm!❤️

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I'm glad it reminded you of good times 😀

[@eerbilly]

I live in Scottsdale now, but grew up in the WV mountains. I grew up on kilt lettuce and still make it for my kids who love it!

[@sbishop16]

I love this dinner! My grandmother called it “kilt lettuce” . Sometimes she’d add dandelion greens and watercress ( I’m thinking this is what you called branch lettuce, maybe?) I make BLT salad with the wilted lettuce and onions with tomatoes and bacon cut up in it, 😋.

[@michaelcoughlin8966]

And now you are killing me that sound so good!

[@dsmith2088]

Me too! Grew up.in Virginia and my Granparents and my parents always had huge generous gardens with every growable veggie for canning and freezing and great summer time eating! So much work but that's just what folk did then to save money and eat well.. Some of my favorite memories of childhood involve my Mama and Granny side by side in their aprons canning fresh garden tomatoes and green beans and etc etc. It was hot in that kitchen but they laughed and.worked together so perfectly! Great memories of a time gone by ....and we called it Wilted Lettuce but fixed it like yours! Thank you for reminding me! Blessings!

[@tammycenter8757]

I asm from Appalachia and grew up eating this. I still make it today. One of my favorite meals.

[@TNgrandee3]

Oh, I could almost smell the bacon drippings Grandma used on her wilted lettuce. This was some of the first foods from the garden and it seemed we were all starved for fresh garden stuff after nearly a whole winter of eating from canning jars. Again, thanks for the memory.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I do wonder if that's why it so good-because its the first fresh stuff from the garden. Thank you Delores 😀

[@lceec7012]

My momma and daddy called it wilted lettuce. We also ate it with fatback, pintos, and a pone of corn bread for supper. My daddy usually made this meal for us. Sometimes, we had crackling in the cornbread. I haven’t thought of that in years. Your videos bring back sweet memories. Thank you.

[@janemartin229]

When I saw you cutting the roots off the green onions, it reminded of someone who did that but stuck it back in the soil and it would grow another onion. He did it with store-bought green onions. That way you could get much more for your money--a perpetual supply of green onions!

[@TimUFL]

I do the same - haven't bought a store bought onion months!

[@Scott65J]

I do this too, but I use way more green onions than I could grow...still helps and it's easy

[@johnnyburns9889]

I’ve got to try that.

[@freedomrings5270]

My passed hubby taught me how to make Wilted Lettuce and Spinach. We would fry bacon and set it aside, then add cider vinegar and sugar to the grease. Stirring until a boil then added the bacon back. We prepared the fresh lettuce or spinach in a large bowl then chopped up boiled eggs over the lettuce or spinach then poured the bacon mixture over top....tossed the ate. Best thing I have ever put in my mouth!!!! I would pick this over a piece of pie or cake which is hard to say since I do love my sweets.

[@mshortt64]

We call it scalded lettuce. It looks so good except I would need me some fried taters to go with it. I live in Southwest Va.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I love fried taters 😀

[@atmako1]

Me too in Giles Co.

[@bettytenney4353]

I was raised calling it scalded lettuce also , and I'm also from Southwest VA.!!!

[@ruggedmountainhomestead7595]

I grew up in SW VA but now in Central VA. We always called it wilted lettuce. My grandmother who made it for us was from WV so maybe that’s why I am used to hearing it as something else. And yes please to some fried taters!

[@MsLighthorse]

I’m from southwest Virginia and mom called it “kilt” lettuce too.

[@tamaramorton8812]

My mother‘s family is from southern Ohio and I grew up with this salad. I loved it growing up but I kind of forgot about it. We made it with bacon grease to wilt the lettuce and then add a dressing of a little bit of sugar, vinegar, salt and pepper. Delicious! We called it wilted lettuce salad. Thanks for reminding me of it. I’m going to have to make me one of these!

[@DouglasCohen1962]

Brings back memories my aunt who passed away at 91 4 years ago made this with her fresh lettuces back in the day!

[@lylebrimingham7369]

See 91 and they think bacon grease ant good for ya !

[@888-m2m]

My dad's favorite! He's in heaven now and when ever I see this it makes me think of him.That looks so yummy!

[@sunflowerlady1810]

I love kilt lettuce. Here in KY I've heard it called by all those names. Looks Soo good,,,,,

[@Lee7699]

My grandmother always called it "killed" lettuce, but all my aunts called it "wilted" lettuce. Love it! Thanks for sharing!

[@grannygrunt5211]

I live in the middle of Indiana and I love wilted lettuce That's what we call it, We put the greens in it the hot bacon grease, the green onions, Sometimes some people put a little vinegar in it, Salt and pepper, I love it, Your supper looks like some good eating. God bless you all!

[@CocoFirenze]

That sizzle ❤ This looks delicious, will try! You really got me at the end with crumbled cornbread! And you have such a beautiful way on camera, I am learning so much here. Music was wonderful too. I truly appreciate the hard work putting these videos together for us. I've got lots of catching up to do here on your channel 💛

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you so much 🤗

[@lisathomas5719]

So glad you posted this, thank you. My Grandmother Mollie was born in Covington, Kentucky. When I was a very young girl my Grandma would make this. I haven't had it since. No one I asked had heard of the Wilted lettuce dish. I loved that dish ! If I ever move to a home with a yard and can garden this will be the first dish I make.

[@0Hillbilly]

I grew up eating wilted lettuce as well as wilted greens. You're right, thats a feast.

[@jules1011]

I’m lucky to say all my family roots are in West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky. What I learned and saw during my visits there have lasted my whole life as I was born and still live in California. Following behind my beautiful Great Grandma Belva in the garden, watching her sew and cook from what the earth blessed them with and spending time just with her is a treasure I’ll never forget ❤️❤️❤️

[@dwjr5129]

Gosh that looked good! I remember grandma talking about “kilt lettuce” but I can’t ever remember eating any with them.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you! Hopefully you'll get to try it too 😀

[@PlasticBaby21]

I grew up in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in NC and we always called it "Scalded Lettuce," but we made it just like you did. I knew my mom and dad thought we were having a real treat when we had that for supper with some cornbread. It was definitely one of those meals that came "right from the garden to the table" kid of meals. I love your posts. I brings up a lot of memories for me.

[@bradbyers7505]

Yummy! I love wilted lettuce. One of the first things we had from the garden every spring. We made it with jowl bacon, grease, cider vinegar and sugar. There is an art to making this dish. My wife's granny made the best I ever tasted. She also planted English peas very early, and cooked them in broth with tiny crumbles of dough she called dumplin's. Our grands are all gone now, but what I wouldn't give for one more meal with them.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Brad-would have loved to have had those peas that sounds so good!

[@dwjr5129]

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve wished for one more meal at that old table with the inevitable “Rook” game afterwards.

[@bradbyers7505]

@@dwjr5129 Or Euchre

[@bradbyers7505]

@@dwjr5129 Do we know each other? You have my curiousity up.

[@dwjr5129]

@@bradbyers7505 don’t believe so.

[@kimberlyacedo2786]

My grandma raised me in California but she was from Alabama. This was one of my favorite suppers. Daddy would put radish in our wilted salad also. It gave it a nice kick in flavor.

[@lyman5000]

Mom made this everyday when the bib lettuce, onions, and radishes were ready in the spring...you need smoking hot grease and plenty of cornbread

[@jltest5230]

Love them. My grandmothers and my mom made this all my life. Tennessee people ate this way and I thought everyone did as well. Lol. Glad to know I am one of ya’ll.

[@kathysunshine699]

The vinegar and a bit of sugar, added to the bacon grease, was what we then added to fresh spinach leaves, and just some green onions (then tossed,and topped with sliced boiled eggs) ... That hot dressing is almost like what wrbput on “hot German potato salad”, the boiled cold potatoes are sliced, then added to a hot cast iron skillet, that the dressing was made in, to warm the potatoes,... (but you crumble up the bacon and keep it in the pan)... VERY yummy, tangy sweet dressing for both spinach or hot potato salad... try it some time!.... yum!mall the aunt’s had a bit different version but basically the same. (None of us were German.. mostly Italian or Scottish, but that is just what they called it)

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I do need to try it-thank you Kathy 😀

[@queenbee3647]

I totally forgot my memory of this version! Thanks for reminding me of wilted spinach. Loved the sliced hb eggs on top. 😁

[@thegreatowl4912]

My German Grammaw would make essentially the same "hot dressing" for potato salad. But, she'd also pick fresh dandelion greens and wilt them with the sane bacon grease, white vinegar and sugar. It was one of my favorite dishes ever!

[@MifaMila58]

That's my favorite potato salad. It's in my 1950s Betty Crocker Cook book, my Mama gave it to me when we married in 1958.

[@clee6809]

Sugar, that was what else we had in it. Vinegar, fried bacon and crumbled it up in the lettuce along with the fat and vinegar. I knew I was forgetting something.

[@freethinker4596]

It's wonderful and I remember my Maw cooking it when I was little, I'm 58 now, So I recommend trying it. It's a lasting memory.

[@clancaster9410]

I'm from Missouri my grandma used to make this for my dad growing up and also me growing up. We called it Wilted lettuce we also put vinegar in with it. I love the stuff! I almost yelled when I saw this video I live in SC now and nobody around here seems to have ever had it. I've made it for my husband and friends and they ate it up!

[@brendawoods554]

Yes absolutely we called it wilted lettuce, brings back memories for sure of growing up in KY, haven't had it in years , it was always a treat when the garden started coming in , my mom always used bacon grease , thanks for sharing , love the memories

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

It is the first treat of the garden 😀

[@hazel555]

I appreciate the pride you have for your exceptional culture.

[@tinaapplegate5914]

This makes me miss fat back gravy and Biscuits with Cantelope my Daddy made the best !!

[@patriciacesar6500]

My mother grew up in Elizabethton ,TN She and her mother,my Maw Maw made so many of the foods that you feature on your channel. It brings back so many memories of when I was a little girl.

[@mikelarmon4614]

My papaw would make this wilted salad for me when I was a boy

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Mike-that's a good memory 😀

[@mariebernier3076]

You need to make it again for yourself, now.❤

[@Pamela_Gram]

My aunt and my grandmother always made wilted lettuce with radishes, green onions and lettuce. All from their gardens. Loved it. Yes, always bacon grease too.

[@barbbaines3776]

My Mom ate this the day I was born, She got sick and the nurse looked at her and said "Honey, what in the world did you eat"?

[@sharoncrow5529]

I had the same experience, but I was the one who ate a ball full of greetings then gave birth. LOL. The nurses were having a fit

[@gailboyd2076]

We called something similar growing up on the farm in Michigan, we called Wilted Lettuce. Any leaf lettuce, a few chopped onions and a chopped boiled egg were tossed together. Then we woufd fry up a few slices of bacon crisp and crumble the bacon in. We took the warm grease and added maybe a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, a teaspoon of sugar and some fresh ground black pepper and have it very warm. We poured this on the lettuce and tossed. Really one of my favorites. I have never had a salad lover not lie it!

[@elbay2]

You’ve given me a very promising way to transform the TONS of lettuce leaves that are growing in our garden… thanks!

[@franklingrx]

My family is from Abingdon (Southwest) Virginia... originally 1790s. This was always called "Scalded Lettuce" and has been my favorite meal since I was small. The salad was made with boiled egg slices, bacon pieces, and spring onions layered 3 or 4 times with lots of leaf lettuce pieces. The dressing was hot bacon grease mixed with a little sugar, celery seeds with buttermilk/milk whisked into the skillet before pouring. We ate it at least twice a month... just made it the other night!!

[@Cathyann51222]

I grew up in North West Illinois but my mother and grandma and relatives on her side, were from Tennessee. She made several southern dishes and woke lettuce was one I remember. Even as a young girl I can remember how good it was! Mom made it with bacon grease and vinegar and sugar, all three! It was tangy and delicious. Sometimes I crave it! Love your videos. ❤

[@snapperkc9317]

Mom used to make “wilted lettuce” for my Dad…he loved it and so did I. I’ve never made it or watched it being made and was surprised how little grease you added, glad I watched! Thanks!

[@ravenbard3109]

Yes, I have eaten your recipe growing up and a little once I married but have not had it in a long time. My grandparents raised me in SE Missouri and that is where I ate it. She was a wonderful book and never used recipes but it was always delicious food. We called it "Wilted Lettuce" Same ingredients of lettuce, onioins and bacon grease.. yum Thanks for bringing back an old memory and a wonderul one at that.

[@barrygraham7510]

Here in south central Kentucky in the foothills of Appalachia my granny who passed away last year at the ripe age of 99 called it wilted lettuce, but made just like yours. One of my favorites of hers and still make it today.

[@williambutler8624]

Looks good, we grew eating everything from the garden, tomatoes, squash, corn, oakra, pepper, cucumbers, you can't beat fresh vegetables from the garden, all I can say you folks know how to eat, thanks for sharing.

[@MarshaP-su8sf]

My Daddy is from Murphy and I grew up with this dish in the summers. He called it scalded lettuce. So good!

[@danitasandidge6556]

I was raised in the tri cities in Tennessee. I don't remember a time I didn't eat "kilt" lettuce, one of my garden favorites and still is. My family always added apple cider vinegar and salt to the lettuce before adding the drippings, which makes it especially delicious served along side hickory smoked pork ribs. I do know that no amount of lettuce fixed this way is enough. There is never any left over. I enjoy watching your channel.

[@quinnas7931]

This is one of my favorite videos!!! You bring back so many childhood memories we shared growing up in Texas. Many times after church we would go to My grandparents for Sunday dinner (noonish time). My grandmother would make "wilted salad" with spinach and onions. Everyone would be seated at the table waiting patiently for grandmama to wilt the salad and dress with a boiled egg 💜. Then Poppa would say the blessing and we pass the wilted salad around the table first. She new just how much to make for the 7 of us! My family of 5 (3daughters) have lived in NC for 20 years. Our oldest daughter graduated UNC-Ashville. My husband and I go to Maggie Valley every fall for a 4 day weekend with friends to ride the Blue Ridge and back roads on motorcycles. BEAUTIFUL country! Now you know why I love your family and videos so much!💗

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you 😀

[@suemaden2418]

My granny used to make, what was called Wilted Lettuce. I am 74 and I can still taste how good it was. Had chopped onions and hot bacon grease, salt and pepper. So good.

[@amandiepannell786]

Awww..kilt lettuce..I haven't eaten that in AGES! .. granny made it all summer long.. didn't like it as a small kid, but learned to love it as I got older

[@kimsmith6974]

When I was a kid my aunt would come over and fix wilted lettace. It was one of my favs, but i seem to remember it had a very slight vinegar taste to it also. I will try and make this. Thank you so much for bringing back cherished memories.

[@shuvanidev]

We used bacon, hot bacon drippings and a little apple cider vinegar, crumbling the bacon and adding it to the lettuce We called it wilted lettuce and it was/is delicious!!! We would add a little sugar to it when dressing dandelion greens or spinach with hard boiled egg slices. I love watching you prepare and talk about your meals. It reminds me so much of my youth when we ate seasonally and fresh out of the garden.

[@franceszacher6822]

My husband and I really enjoy watching your videos. I was born and raised in Northeast Oklahoma and my momma and daddy use to always call it wilted lettuce.

[@alandenniston8209]

I grew up in southwest Ohio with parents from Kentucky, my mother was from Appalachian region of Kentucky and her parents and siblings called it wilted lettuce. Mom grew her onions and leaf lettuce and every spring this was made a couple a times a week . My mother liked a little vinegar added to the hot bacon grease. My aunt alway love to add some wild watercress mixed with the leaf lettuce. As a kid it wasn’t my fave, but love it so much now and brings back memories of my mother and her love for this dish.

[@harrymontgomery5268]

My grandma called it kilt lettuce, that salt pork we called fat back. Love your videos they take me back to a time and place I enjoy. Thank you for sharing this.

[@KAT-KIT]

My mom called it wilted salad. She would take bacon grease, a little splash of vinegar and a pinch of sugar. It was a favorite of me and my dad. You have my mouth watering.

[@dodalton1]

My dad is from West Virginia and my mom is French, so I feel like I hit the culinary jackpot growing up with amazing food from two different cultures. I've actually had this salad but it wasn't something my dad ever made. It's something my French grandmother made. She used the fat from lardons (chopped thick bacon). Sometimes they add chopped walnuts and a splash of vinegar before serving. - I love your channel and really enjoy learning more about my Appalachian heritage. :)

[@slypup1]

Im 67 years old and grew up eating wilted lettuce here in Arkansas. We have had 2 messes of it this spring already. My wife is from western Kentucky and she never hade it till I fixed her som and now she loves it also. I really like your videos. It seems you enjoy the same things as we do here.

[@bemdederwin1554]

I don't remember Mama making it with lettuce but she did this same recipe with mustard greens or sometimes, spinach. Crazy recipe but really good.

[@iceman3876]

I'm from the mountains in NC and mama always called it "kilt down lettuce." Your cookin' looks so good. How I wish I could sit down to some of that good cooking. Reminds me of my childhood.

[@paulaestes567]

Hi Tipper! I absolutely LOVE as we call it here in my neck of the woods "wilted lettuce" . We had this every summer growing up and it's still one of my favorites! My mom always cooked up some bacon for ours then she would chop the bacon in small pieces after it cooled and would add it to the lettuce and onion mixture, then pour over the hot bacon grease, add just a touch of vinegar and mix it together, and sometimes she would also add some of our radishes sliced thinly into the mixture which was also really good, eat it with a big ole pone of cornbread, and you've got yourself a meal fit for a king!

[@iamlollie4241]

My grandma used to make wilted lettuce, she always made it when she made ham and bean soup, she always had a big cast iron skillet of fried potatoes and we would put that bean soup over our potatoes and corn bread.When she made wilted lettuce she used the vinegar in it. It’s been so many years since I’ve had it. I’ve lived up north my whole life, but these videos of yours bring back a lot of memories of things we ate and sayings that we say. Back in the early 70’s we used to go to West Virginia to visit aunt Bee and uncle Oliver with my grandparents, they had no running water and we had to use an outhouse, she cooked huge breakfasts on a wood stove, they weren’t really our aunt and uncle, my grandma was very good friends with aunt Bee. Those were wonderful times we had visiting there, they were deep in the mountains, we always hated leaving when that week was over

[@billprator3594]

I GREW UP IN TEXAS, BUT MY GRAND MOTHER WAS A GRANNY WOMAN IN APPALACHIA BEFORE SHE MOVED TO TEXAS. WATCHING YOUR VIDEOS IS SO FAMILIAR TO ME. I GREW UP ON THE SAME KIND OF FOOD THAT YOUR FAMILY EATS. OUR DIET WAS PART APPALACHIA COOKING AND MEXICAN COOKING.WE ATE EVERYTHING FROM HOG HEAD SOUSE TO PIG EARS AND PIGS FEET. AND THE MEXICAN PART OF THE DIET WAS TRADITIONAL MEXICAN DISHES.....NOT TEX-MEX. THANK YOU FOR YOUR VIDEOS, I'M SO GLAD I FOUND THEM. I LOVE KILLT LETTUCE AND CORNBREAD

[@littlesis6688]

My KY mother-in-law made wilted lettuce exactly like this. She also substituted fresh spinach for the lettuce...delicious! I'm now almost 72 and love this dish still.

[@stevielund3687]

My dad used to make that but he used spinach leaves and he would add the pieces of bacon to the salad. We called it Wilted salad. I've not had that in years and I loved it. One more thing i wanted to tell you is my grandmother always had a garden with fresh vegetables and she would make a salad every meal and her dressing was sugar and only sugar. I just asked my Aunt how to make grandma's salad dressing and it's just plain old sugar. It was delicious. Weird but delicious. Thanks for sharing with all of us. These videos are my obsession. Such a beautiful family. Absolutely great parents to those wonderful young ladies.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you Stevie! Interesting salad dressing-thank you for sharing that!

[@michaelgardner7124]

Oh my goodness you took me back home again. For some reason when I saw you getting green onions and lettuce from your garden I knew what you were making. I can picture momma and her mother in the garden picking and cleaning there onions the same way you did. Early in the spring of each year was when momma would fix her killed greens and yes she to would use fat back and just a little vinegar, when she did this there was always a pot of pinto beans, corn bread and fat back to go along with the meal. She has use both lettuce and young mustard greens whenever she made killed greens. Bless you again for such a warm hearted video, looking forward to the next one. You and your family have a very beautiful evening.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you! So glad you enjoyed the video and that it brought good memories back to you 😀

[@texasbandera7320]

Yummy yum yum! My family in Oklahoma called it Wilt Salad! We put fresh lettuce, chopped mustard greens, chopped onions, sliced radishes and hot bacon grease drizzled on salad and lightly salted! You are right with pinto beans, cornbread, and fried potatoes with onions. There is nothing better!

[@robyngoldy2464]

Here in my part of Kentucky we always called it lettuce and onions or wilted lettuce. My mamaw taught me hot bacon grease, little vinegar, salt,pepper and a little sugar. And cover with a plate for a few minutes to let it wilt down. My mamaw put a pinch of sugar in just about everything. Brown beans and even white gravy. Love your channel .

[@Needlewich]

I LOVE lettuce and onions!!! I so looked forward to eating this when I was home! Mommy fixed dried cornbread with it and usually with soup beans!!! One of my favorite suppers! Just like yours!! God bless and love to all! 💕🤗🙏🏻