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Spinach Soup

From Leaves from our Tuscan kitchen (1900).

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A historical recipe

Leaves from our Tuscan kitchen, by Janet Ross (1900).

Italy

Known as an Italian 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. six ounces of fresh butter

Cook safely

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

  • Hot oil. Never put water on an oil fire: turn off the heat and cover the pan with a lid or a damp tea towel. Pat food dry before it goes into hot oil, and lower it in gently, away from you.
  • 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.

Method

  1. Tokntina ^ alia Venexiana?
  2. Put two large tablespoonfiils of fine yellow Indian-corn meal into oiie quart of boiling milk.
  3. Stir continually for twenty minutes to prevent burning, then add one teaspoonful of salt (or more to taste), and four to six ounces of fresh butter.
  4. Serve with crofitons (fried bread).

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Frying pan
  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon
Source public domain per archive.org metadata; unverified
Credit

From Leaves from our Tuscan kitchen (1900), printed page 134, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/leavesfromourtu01rossgoog

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.