[Hardens Hollow]

I just heard of ‘killed salad’ by a neighbor here. Is it good? Sounds interesting.

[kalee]

I like it. The dressing is a warm vinaigrette of bacon grease, mustard, finely minced onion, brown sugar, salt and pepper.
You can use any kind of lettuce, spinach leaves or a combination. When serving add cooked bacon pieces and sliced hard boiled egg to the salad on the plates.
My grandmother made it, but my mother never did. My mother and her friends were young wives in the early Julia Child era, they didn't cook like their mothers. Southern and Appalachian mountain cooking is under going a revival. You can find cookbooks with the old recipes in them and upscale restaurants are charging high prices for foods that were simple sustenance for our ancestors. Ramps sell for about $12.00 a pound in Wegman’s in the DC area, while my grandparents foraged for them on the their farm.