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Another I'Vay to Jlew Spinach

From The lady's assistant for regulating and supplying the table, being a complete system of cookery ... including the fulles (1801).

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A historical recipe

The lady's assistant for regulating and supplying the table, being a complete system of cookery ... including the fulles, by Charlotte. n Mason (1801).

United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. a pint of cream

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. .
  2. TAKE three large handfuls of fpinach, when boiled, fling it mto cold water ;
  3. wafh it very clean, and fqueeze it in a cloth very dry ;
  4. then chop it fmall, and put it in a flewpan, with a piece of butter, and half a pint of cream.;
  5. ftir it well over the Are, that it doe?
  6. not oil • fhake in it a very little flour, a little fait, and a.
  7. little more cream ;
  8. let it be quite hot, and fend it up.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
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Credit

From The lady's assistant for regulating and supplying the table, being a complete system of cookery ... including the fulles (1801), printed page 280, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b22040341

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.