Spinach with Cream

Ingredients

• your spinach
• four ounces of butter
• a tablespoonful of flour
• a little salt
• nutmeg
• half a teaspoonful of sugar
• half a pint of cream
• pieces of bread fried in butter

Method

1. 1

   Boil your spinach as the foregoing, chop it extremely fine.

2. 2

   Put butter, flour, salt, nutmeg, sugar, and cream in a saucepan on the fire.

3. 3

   Stir until boiling, add your spinach, and serve hot, garnished with pieces of bread fried in butter.

As published

This recipe was extracted from French dishes for American tables (1886) by Caron, Pierre, page 61. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Spinach with Cream. Boil your spinach as the foregoing, chop it extremely fine. Put in a saucepan on the fire four ounces of butter, a table- spoonful of flour, a little salt, nutmeg, half a tea- spoonful of sugar, and half a pint of cream. Stir all well together until boiling, add your spinach, and, when hot, serve, garnished with pieces of bread fried in butter. 375. Salsify with Butter Sauce. Scrape three bunches of salsify, dip them in three quarts of water and two tablespoonfuls of vinegar, to prevent their turning black, then cut them three inches in length. Put two tablespoonfuls of flour

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