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Spinach "In Riccioli"

A historical recipe from Simple Italian Cookery, by Antonia Isola.

A historical recipe

Simple Italian Cookery, by Antonia Isola. Project Gutenberg eBook #6385.

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

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From Simple Italian Cookery, by Antonia Isola. Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #6385 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6385). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Boil the spinach and pass it through a fine colander.
  2. Beat up two eggs, add salt and pepper, and mix enough spinach into them to make them green.
  3. Put a little olive-oil into a frying-pan, and when it is thoroughly heated (but not boiling), pour a little of the egg, turning the pan about so that the pancake should be as thin as a piece of paper and dry.
  4. Toss if necessary.
  5. Take it out;
  6. repeat with the rest of the egg.
  7. Then take the pancakes, place them one on top of the other, and cut them into pieces the width of a finger and about two inches long.
  8. Fry them in butter, and grate a little Parmesan cheese over them.
  9. They make a very nice garnish.