Spinach Soup

Ingredients

• 1 peck of spinach
• piece of butter size of an egg
• 1 onion chopped fine
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 2 quarts water
• 3 yolks

Method

1. 1

   Wash and chop spinach.

2. 2

   Fry onion in butter, add flour, then spinach and water.

3. 3

   Simmer for 30 minutes, strain, and season.

4. 4

   Add yolks dissolved in cream before serving.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Kentucky receipt book (1903) by Mary Harris Frazer, page 4. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Spinach Soup. Use 1 peck of spinach, wash it thoroughly and chop fine, put piece of butter in saucepan, size of an egg; when hot add 1 onion chopped fine; fry until brown, then add 2 tablespoons flour, stir a few minutes. Add chopped spinach, stir well, then add 2 quarts wator. Let it simmer half an hour, put through sieve, season just before serving. Add 3 yolks

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