To dress EGGS and SPINAGE

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (6)
For the spinach
For the eggs
Optional substitution for spinach
Instructions (11)
  1. Pick and wash your spinach in several waters.
  2. Set a pan over the fire with a large quantity of water, throw a handful of salt in.
  3. When it boils put your spinach in, and let it boil two minutes.
  4. Take it up with a fish slice, and lay it on the back of a hair sieve.
  5. Squeeze the water out, and put it in a tossing-pan, with a quarter of a pound of butter.
  6. Keep turning and chopping it with a knife till it is quite dry.
  7. Then press it a little betwixt two pewter plates.
  8. Cut it in the shape of slippets, and some in diamonds.
  9. Poach your eggs as before, and lay them on your spinach.
  10. Serve them up hot.
Note
  1. You may boil brocoli instead of spinach, and lay it in bunches betwixt every egg.
Original Text
To dress EGGS and SPINAGE. PICK and waſh your ſpinage in ſeveral waters, ſet a pan over the fire with a large quantity of water, throw a handful of ſalt in, when it boils put your ſpinage in, and let it boil two minutes, • take it up with a fiſh ſlice, and lay it on the back of a hair ſieve, ſqueeze the water out, and put it in a toſſing-pan, with a quarter of a pound of butter, keep turning and chopping it with a knife till it is quite dry, then preſs it a little betwixt two pewter plates, cut it in the ſhape of ſlippets, and ſome in diamonds, poach your eggs as before, and lay them on your ſpinage, and ſerve them up hot.—N. B. You may boil brocoli inſtead of ſpinage, and lay it in bunches betwixt every egg.
Notes
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