You can easily wash and dry fresh lettuce in a few minutes for your meal. Boil lettuce in a vegetable soup for an extra healthy dose of greens. Cooking lettuce gives it an entirely new texture that can be used in soups, stews or for many easy Asian side dishes. Boiling separated lettuce is faster than boiling a whole head of lettuce at once, though you can do either.
With its thick leaves, romaine lettuce is good for freezing. Another method is to store the leaves in an air-tight container or zip-lock bag, along with some paper towels. They will keep for 2 to 3 days. Store Romaine lettuce unwashed in a loosely closed plastic bag in the refrigerator, or wash the leaves, dry them thoroughly, and refrigerate in a tightly sealed plastic bag. Either way, Romaine should last for up to a week. Add lettuce, pressing it down to fit. Chopped, de-leafed, or whole?
The heads I used were on the smaller side about the size of a small cantaloupe. Bacon: I tried to figure out if my bacon slices were larger than those used in the early twentieth century, but the internet provided little help. So, I chose the largest three slices in the package and diced them. My husband laughed as I resorted to cutting the bacon with scissors after our sharpest knife failed me.
Fat is difficult to slice through! How much??! What kind of vinegar? What type of salt? And what the heck is Buckeye pepper? I opted for white vinegar. Regular iodized table salt seemed like it would be easier to evenly distribute over the boiled leaves than coarser kosher or sea salts, so I went with that.
And to the best of my researching capabilities, I determined that Buckeye pepper was either a particular brand now defunct , pepper ground in a grinder made of Buckeye wood, or possibly this pony. The black pepper I already had in my pantry seemed like it would do just fine. At pm on a Friday evening, I began boiling five heads of de-leafed lettuce with three diced bacon slices in a five-gallon stockpot filled with enough water to just cover the goods. While waiting for the giant pot to boil, I began to wonder how long it would take for approximately five gallons of water to boil on a wood burning stove, or even over an open fire.
What sort of things would an early-twentieth-century cook have attended to while waiting? Making bread? Churning butter? Me, I played a Harry Potter game on my phone for the hour it took the bacon-lettuce-water to reach a boil on my gas stove. The strange trend sees people drinking hot water soaked in a common vegetable — but does it actually work? If you find yourself laying in bed at night unable to doze off, then you might want to pop the kettle on. But rather than making a cuppa right before bed which could actually keep you awake for longer , people are boiling lettuce in a mug which is putting them to sleep in seconds.
TikTok user Shapla Hoque first made the claim in a clip she shared online, which has gone on to rack up more than 4. In the clip, Ms Hoque boiled a kettle and poured the boiling water on some washed lettuce leaves which were shoved in a mug, before removing them as she sipped on the water.
So how does it actually work? Well, studies from and back up the seemingly bonkers claims with experts suggesting that lettuce, particularly, romaine, contains a phytonutrient, called lactucarium which is said to induce sleep and relieve pain.
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