Curried Spinach

Ingredients

• 2 lb. of spinach
• 1 oz. of butter
• a level dessertspoonful of curry powder
• a dessertspoonful of finely-minced onions
• a dessertspoonful of flour
• 2 tablespoonsful of cream

Method

1. 1

   Pick and wash the spinach, cook with little water until tender, then drain and rub through a sieve.

2. 2

   Fry curry powder in butter, add minced onions, and stir in spinach puree.

3. 3

   Sprinkle flour over spinach, incorporate with cream, and cook slowly for about 15 minutes.

4. 4

   Serve on toasted bread, garnished with crayfish or prawns, and with boiled rice.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How to cook vegetables (1911) by Charles Herman Senn, page 87. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Curried Spinach. Pick and wash 2 lb. of spinach, and cook it with very little water till tender ; drain it in a colander so as to extract the water, then rub it through a fine sieve. Fry a level dessertspoonful of curry powder in 1 oz. of butter, add a dessertspoonful of finely-minced onions, and stir in the spinach puree. Sprinkle a dessertspoonful of flour over the spinach, and in- corporate this with 2 tablespoonsful of cream

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