Spinach

Ingredients

• 2 quarts spinach
• 1 cup broth (or milk)
• 1 tablespoon flour
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• Salt and pepper to taste

Method

1. 1

   Clean the spinach, cut into pieces, wash well, boil for ten minutes, and put through cold water.

2. 2

   Then fry for ten minutes the flour in the olive oil; to this add the spinach, also one-half of the broth.

3. 3

   After boiling this mixture for five to eight minutes, pour in the rest of the broth, stir slowly, and continue boiling for ten minutes longer.

4. 4

   Serve this hot with a little hot butter poured over it.

5. 5

   The stale bread slices may be cut into square pieces and fried in butter, and arranged over the spinach.

6. 6

   The broth may be replaced with milk.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Foods of the foreign-born in relation to health (1922) by Bertha M. Wood, page 30. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Spinache 2 quarts spinach j cup broth (or milk) 1 tablespoon flour 2 or 3 slices bread (stale) 2 tablespoons olive oil Salt and pepper to taste

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