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The Swedish, French, American cook book

1918

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Presented as published in 1918. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Cook the spinach about eight minutes [see recipe: How to Cook Spinach]. Skim up from the water, put in a colander, then in a saucepan; put half cup melted butter over a quart of cooked spinach, pepper and salt to taste✪ Spinach with Butter (Epinards au Beurre); let simmer on stove from eight to ten minutes in the butter. Serve as a vegetable. Can also be served around boiled smoked tongue and ham. 4 Creamed Spinach ( Epinards a la Creme ) a la Walde Cook the spinach [see recipe: How to Cook Spinach]. Pass it through the machine two or three times. To one quart of cooked spinach add one and a half cups cream sauce, pepper and salt to taste; let come to a boil. Dish up in a vegetable dish; garnish with slices of hard-boiled egg and cooked beets alternately. Serve with any kind of meat. Spinach Mousse ( Mousse d’ Epinards) Cook the spinach [see recipe: How to Cook Spinach]. Pass it through the machine about three times. To each cup of cooked ground spinach take three tablespoons cream sauce, one egg, pep¬ per, and more salt if needed. Beat well. Butter a ring mould well, decorate around with Spanish pepper✪ Spinach Mousse (Mousse d’ Epinards), daisies and branches from cooked white of egg, then fill. Put in hot water and cook AMERICAN COOK BOOK from twenty to twenty-five minutes — uncovered. Turn out on a platter. Serve with a cream or hollandaise sauce in the centre as a vegetable. Can also be served as an entree. 4 Spinach Foundation (Base d’ Epinards) Cook and prepare the spinach [see recipe: Spinach Mousse]. Butter and decorate a cake plate, form a ring of spinach all around. Cook in hot water — uncovered — from fifteen to twenty minutes. Turn out on a platter. Foundation for any kind of fish or entree. 4 Spinach Timbales (Timbales d’ Epinards) Cook and prepare the spinach [see recipe: Spinach Mousse]. Butter timbale cups, decorate with Spanish pepper and cooked white of egg, then fill. Cook in hot water from fifteen to eighteen minutes — uncovered. Turn out and serve around the ham as a garnishing. y CAULIFLOWER (Chou-fleur) Cauliflower with Butter (Chou-fleur au Beurre) Take a nice white cauliflower; trim all the stem leaves — leaving a little of the green sprout around; put in cold water, sufficient to cover it, and cook about twenty minutes. Then add a little salt and again cook from eight to ten minutes after the salt is added; pour the water off. To a cauliflower of ordinary size add half cup melted butter✪ Cauliflower with Butter (Chou-fleur au Beurre), let simmer in the butter for a little while. Place in a vegetable dish — put the rose up and the stem down. Serve as a vegetable. Cauliflower (Chou-fleur) a la Hollandaise Cook the cauliflower [see recipe: Cauliflower with Butter]. When ready to serve make a rich hollandaise sauce and pour it over the cauliflower. Serve as a vegetable. Can also be served as an entree after the roast. Cauliflower with Cream Sauce ( Chou-fleur , a la Bechamel) Follow directions for Cauliflower (Chou-fleur) a la Hollandaise [see recipe], using a rich cream sauce instead of the hollandaise sauce. THE SWEDISH, FRENCH, Cauliflower {Chou-fleur) au Gratin ✪ Cauliflower au Gratin