Braised Boston Lettuce

Name: Braised Boston Lettuce
Yield: Six servings.
Ingredients: ¾ cup fresh or canned chicken broth; ¾ cup fresh or canned chicken broth; Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste; Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste; 2 tablespoons butter; ¾ cup brown sauce, or canned beef gravy; ¾ cup brown sauce, or canned beef gravy; 1 small onion, peeled, sliced, and broken into rings; 1 carrot, scraped and thinly sliced; ⅛ pound salt pork or bacon; ⅛ pound salt pork or bacon; 1 rib celery without leaves; ½ bay leaf; 2 sprigs fresh thyme or ½ teaspoon dried thyme; 2 sprigs fresh thyme or ½ teaspoon dried thyme; 6 heads Boston lettuce

Preparation info

Six
servings.

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Craig Claiborne’s Kitchen Primer

By Craig Claiborne

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

6 heads Boston lettuce
⅛ pound salt pork or bacon
1

Dinner
Main course
Gluten-free

Method

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Place the lettuce in a large kettle of cold water and agitate the lettuce gently with the hands without bruising the leaves.
Drain the lettuce well and pull off one layer of large outer leaves