Cream Of Spinach Recipe

Instructions

1. Remove the dry leaves, if any, from 3 or 4 bunches of spinach, and wash in several waters.
2. Drain, add boiling water barely to cover, and let boil quite rapidly until very tender, adding salt to taste.
3. Rub together 2 tablespoons vegetable butter and 2 tablespoons flour in a saucepan over the fire, add a little of the hot broth, and stir smooth.
4. Add this to the spinach, and boil up.
5. Mash through a colander or a coarse strainer, and season with hot cream or cold canned milk.
6. An onion may be boiled in the spinach if desire.