Spinach
Cream Soup
2 cups spinach,
cooked
4 oz butter
1/2 tsp grated nutmeg
1 tsp salt
2 qts stock
1 Tbs butter
1 tsp granulated sugar
Pick, wash and
boil enough spinach to measure two cups, when cooked, chopped and
pounded into a soft paste.
Put it into
a stewpan with the fresh butter, nutmeg, and salt salt. Cook and
stir it about ten minutes.
Add to this
the strong stock, let boil up, then rub it through a strainer. Set
it over the fire again, and, when on the point of boiling, mix with
it a tablespoonful of butter, and a teaspoonful of granulated sugar.