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Cream of Spinach

Ingredients

• 1/2 peck spinach
• 6 cups cold water
• 1/2 small bay leaf
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 3 tablespoons cottolene
• 2 cups milk
• 2 slices onion
• 3 tablespoons flour
• 1/2 cup heavy cream
• cayenne pepper
• celery salt

Instructions

Cook spinach in water thirty minutes. Drain, chop, and rub through sieve. Scald milk with onion and bay leaf. Melt Cottolene in sauce-pan, add flour, stir to a smooth paste, pour on slowly scalded milk (first removing onion and bay leaf), stirring constantly. Add seasonings, spinach pulp; cook five minutes and serve with cream, whipped stiff. Sprinkle each portion with finely chopped parsley.

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Source

Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners (1913).