Prawns on the Grass

Ingredients

• Butter lightly the bottom of the Chafing Dish
• half fill it with carefully prepared cooked cold spinach
• a dozen prawns
• two eggs, hard-boiled and cut in quarters
• a cupful of milk
• pepper
• salt

Method

1. 1

   Butter the Chafing Dish, fill with spinach, add prawns and quartered eggs.

2. 2

   Season with pepper and salt, add milk, cover, and simmer for 10-12 minutes.

3. 3

   Serve with toast.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The cult of the chafing dish (1904) by Frank Schloesser, page 19. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Prawns on the Grass. Prawns on the Grass is recommendable, easy, and decorative for the supper-table. Butter lightly the bottom of the Chafing Dish, half fill it with carefully prepared cooked cold spinach ; on this put a dozen prawns, two eggs, hard-boiled and cut in quarters ; arrange these symmetrically, add FISH 67 pepper, salt, and a cupful of milk

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