Spinach

Ingredients

• Clean, and pick well
• a quarter of a pound of butter
• a spoonfull of flour

Method

1. 1

   Set the cleaned spinach on the fire with cold water and salt.

2. 2

   When tender, strain and chop fine.

3. 3

   Set butter on the fire to brown, add flour to make smooth, then add spinach.

4. 4

   If too thick, add a little soup stock, boil up, season with pepper and salt, and serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A Book of Cooking and Pastry: A Collection of Original Receipts Gathered ... (1887) by C. F. Pfau, page 18. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SPINACH. Clean, and pick well. Set on the fire with cold water and salt. When tender, strain, and chop fine ; set on the fire a quarter of a pound of butter to each plate full of spinach ; let it brown with a spoonfull of flour

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