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Spinach Colouring

A liquid made by boiling spinach with water and salt, then straining to extract a green coloring.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Spinach Colouring

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and cook

  1. Wash the spinach carefully and remove the stalks.

  2. Place the spinach in an enamelled saucepan with water and salt.

  3. Cover the saucepan and boil for 15 minutes.

Strain

  1. Press the juice out through a fine sieve, then strain it through muslin.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Spinach
Provides the green pigment that gives the finished liquid its colour.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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