Eilene's Cadillac Version Of The Layered Salad

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 2 -3 heads iceberg lettuce, rinsed and broken into small pieces
• 2 (16 ounce) packages frozen green peas
• 7 hard-boiled eggs, diced
• 3 lbs bacon, fried crumbled
• 1 1/2 bunches scallions, chopped fine
• 2 (32 ounce) jars mayonnaise
• 2 (1 ounce) packets dry ranch dressing mix
• 5 cups of shredded cheddar cheese

Recipe

• 1 set aside frozen peas. keep frozen.
• 2 cut bacon into small strips and fry golden crisp, drain on paper towel.
• 3 break up rinsed lettuce into smaller bite size pieces. set aside in the refrigerator until ready to use.
• 4 chop green onions fairly fine.set aside.
• 5 shred five cups of cheese. set aside.
• 6 boil eggs, peel and chop fine. set aside.
• 7 take each jar of mayonnaise and mix one packet of ranch dressing mix into each and stir until well mixed inches.
• 8 layering of salad is as follows.
• 9 in a deep, long glass casserole baking dish layer the ingredients: spread broken lettuce over bottom of dish, then scallions, then peas, then bacon, then eggs. spread these ingredients evenly to form each layer. note: don't use cheese yet, that's for a later step.
• 10 top with mayonnaise mixture which seals the top of the salad.
• 11 sprinkle evenly the cheddar cheese over the top of mayonnaise layer.
• 12 refrigerate several hours before serving as the frozen peas crisp the lettuce and the eggs blend nicely into the mayonnaise dressing layer.
• 13 serve.