Boiled Spinach with Egg Garnish

Ingredients

• Wash one-half peck spinach.
• Melt one-fourth cup butter
• Sprinkle with one tablespoon flour
• pour over one-half cup chicken stock

Method

1. 1

   Cook spinach in boiling water with sugar and salt, drain and chop.

2. 2

   Add butter and cook for two minutes.

3. 3

   Mix with flour and chicken stock, then mould and garnish with hard-boiled eggs.

As published

This recipe was extracted from What to Have for Dinner (1905) by Fannie Merritt Farmer, page 39. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BOILED SPINACH WITH EGG GARNISH. Wash one-half peck spinach in several waters, dis- carding wilted leaves. Cook in an uncovered vessel in a large quantity of boiling water to which has been added: one-half teaspoon, each, sugar and salt, and one- fourth teaspoon soda; drain and chop. Melt one-fourth cup butter, add spinach, and cook two minutes. Sprinkle with one tablespoon flour arid pour over one-half cup chicken stock

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