Stewed Spinach and Eggs

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
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Ingredients (5)
Spinach
Eggs
Garnish
Instructions (11)
  1. Pick and wash the spinach very clean.
  2. Put the spinach into a saucepan with a little salt.
  3. Cover it close and shake the pan often.
  4. When the spinach is just tender and whilst it is green, throw it into a sieve to drain.
  5. Let it into your dish.
  6. In the mean time, have a stew-pan of water boiling.
  7. Break as many eggs into cups as you would poach.
  8. When the water boils, put in the eggs.
  9. Have an egg-slice ready to take them out with.
  10. Lay the poached eggs on the spinach.
  11. Garnish the dish with orange cut into quarters, with melted butter in a cup.
Original Text
Stewed Spinach and Eggs. PICK and waſh your ſpinach very clean, put it into a ſauce-pan, with a little ſalt; cover it cloſe, ſhake the pan often, when it is juſt tender, and whilſt it is green, throw it into a ſieve to drain, let it into your diſh. In the mean time have a ſtew-pan of water boiling, break as many eggs into cups as you would poach. When the water boils put in the eggs, have an egg-ſlice ready to take them out with, lay them on the ſpinach, and garniſh the diſh with orange cut into quarters, with melted butter in a cup.
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