Dandelion and Bacon Salad

Adandelion and bacon salad is a well-known French dish, but I’m sure we have been eating something similar for years in Britain. For dandelion leaves were valued in country areas as a spring green after the dried pulse diet of the winter months, and were used medicinally as a diuretic (the French name piss-en-lit graphically describes this property). Food writers in the seventeenth century mentioned that the leaves were good to eat and, because dandelion is related to wild chicory, t