wilted lettuce
Sad salad leaves
Wilted lettuce is a traditional Southern dish where hot bacon drippings and vinegar are poured over fresh lettuce, causing it to wilt and soften.
The dressing typically includes bacon pieces, onion, and sugar: Grandma always made wilted lettuce with leaf lettuce from the garden.
Also called killed lettuce or kilt lettuce in Appalachian cooking.
- limpLacking firmness or rigidity
- soggyThoroughly wet and soft
- saladCold dressed vegetables
- greensLeafy edible plants
- droopyHanging or bending downward
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