Spinach, With Egg Dressing

Ingredients

2 pailfuls of spinach, 1 oz. butter, pepper, salt, 1 teaspoonful of sugar, 3 hard-boiled eggs, a little milk.

Method

Well wash the spinach;in two waters that it may be quite free from grit, and cook in boiling water, salted, for twenty minutes. Strain through a colander, and chop it very fine; return it to the saucepan with the butter, pepper, salt, and sugar. Have ready the yolks of 3 hard-boiled eggs rubbed to powder and wetted with a little milk, stir all together in the saucepan with a wire spoon, till smooth and thick; turn into a vegetable dish, and garnish with the whites of the eggs cut into rings.

Spinach, With Poached Eggs

Ingredients

Spinach, 1 oz. butter, pepper and salt, eggs - allow one for each person.

Method

Prepare the spinach as in the foregoing recipe, but leaving out the eggs and milk. Pile it two or three inches high on a flat dish, and lay the poached eggs on the top.

Note. - This is a nice dish for supper, especially if a few rolls of toasted bacon are laid round it.