Lettuce Soup

== Description ==
This is a soup that my Slovak Grandmother use to make when I was a little girl. She used lettuce she would pick fresh out of her garden. I still make this soup every summer and remember her sitting in her kitchen sipping coffee with my Mother and Aunt. It brings back such fond memories.
== Ingredients ==
* 2 lbs thick slab bacon
* flour
* milk
* 2 eggs, beaten
* 2 bunches leaf lettuce
* salt
== Directions ==
# In a cast iron skillet (this the best but you can use any type skillet) fry 2 lbs of bacon (to render fat, but not crisp the bacon).
# Remove bacon from skillet leaving the fat in the pan.
# Allow the fat to brown (slightly).
# For every 2 tablespoons of browned fat rendered add 2 tablespoons of flour.
# Stirring constantly, brown flour in fat to a deep golden brown.
# Allow to cool slightly so as not to curdle the milk when added.
# Once cooled, add 1 cup of milk for ever 2 tablespoons of flour used.
# Bring to rolling boil stirring constantly.
# Add torn up lettuce and cut up bacon to the browned fat and flour mixture.
# Bring back to a rolling boil, stirring constantly.
# Add eggs to mixture making sure to stir it throughout the soup.
# Reduce heat to low and continue to cook for about 1 hour (until lettuce is cooked down).
# salt to taste.
# Serve with a crusty french bread.
Category:Slovak Soups
Category:French bread Recipes
Category:Leaf lettuce Recipes
Category:Bacon Recipes
Category:Egg Recipes
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