Spinach Green for Colouring Various Dishes

Ingredients

• 2 handfuls of spinach

Instructions

1. Pick and wash the spinach free from dirt, and pound the leaves in a mortar to extract the juice;
2. then press it through a hair sieve, and put the juice into a small stewpan or jar.
3. Place this in a bain marie, or saucepan of boiling water, and let it set.
4. Watch it closely, as it should not boil; and, as soon as it is done, lay it in a sieve, so that all the water may drain from it, and the green will then be ready for colouring.
5. If made according to this recipe, the spinach-green will be found far superior to that boiled in the ordinary way.