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Spinach Au Jus

Spinach au Jus is a pureed spinach dish made by cooking spinach in water with coarse sea salt.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Select young and tender spinach. If unavailable, pick over and tear off only the tender parts, discarding spines and coarse fibers.

  2. Place the spinach in a pot with 1 cup of water and a pinch of coarse sea salt.

Cook and serve

  1. Cook over medium heat until the spinach is wilted.

  2. Puree the cooked spinach until smooth.

  3. Serve warm.

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
Forms the entire dish; cooking wilts it and pureeing turns it smooth.

“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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