Cream Of Spinach

A dish made with peck spinach and bay leaf.

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Ingredients

Units: US Metric
  • 1/2 peck spinach
  • 1420 ml cold water
  • 1/2 small bay leaf
  • 1-1/2 teaspoons salt
  • 44 ml Cottolene
  • 470 ml milk
  • 2 slices onion
  • 44 ml flour
  • 120 ml heavy cream
  • Cayenne pepper and celery salt
Make it lactose-friendly
  • 2 cups milk → lactose-free milk, oat milk, or almond milk
  • 1/2 cup heavy cream → lactose-free heavy cream or full-fat coconut cream

Swaps are suggestions, not medical advice. Check labels if lactose is a serious issue for you.

Steps

  1. PROCESS: 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.
Nutrition (estimated, per serving)
Calories342
Protein11.2 g
Fat19.0 g
Carbs32.6 g
Fiber2.5 g
Sodium1303 mg

Source

Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners (pub. domain) — Public domain in the United States