Puree of Spinach with Butter Recipe ingredients

To prepare this Puree of Spinach with Butter Recipe, first pick the stalks from 3 pounds of spinach, and wash it in two or three waters. Lift it out of the water with the fingers that the sand may settle at the bottom, and put it into a saucepan with as much boiling water slightly salted as will keep it from burning. Keep it boiling till it is tender, and press it under the water occasionally with a wooden spoon. Drain it well; carefully pick away any stalks or fibre that may still remain in it, and rub it through a coarse sieve. Put the pulp into a saucepan with a slice of fresh butter, and a little pepper and salt, and stir it briskly over the fire till it is quite hot. Add a spoonful or two of sauce, and let it remain on the fire, stirring all the time, for five minutes. Serve very hot, and garnish with fried sippets, or pile it in the centre of a dish, and place lamb or mutton cutlets on end round it, the long bones inclining towards each other. Time to boil the spinach, ten to fifteen minutes.