Mixed Dishes A Spring Dish (Spinach & Poached Eggs)

a spring dish

(from Godey's Ladies Magazine, edited by L.A. Godey, Sarah J. Hale, 1860)

Ingredients:

toasted bread​

well-boiled spinach​

poached eggs​

Instructions:

Upon a toasted bread place a layer of well-boiled spinach about an inch thick; upon this place at equal distances poached eggs. This forms a pretty, light, and nourishing dish; but be careful that the yellow of the egg is not broken, or the appearance will be lost, and the eggs not worth eating.​

 

[MRB1863]

Spinach is one of my favorites...in salads, with rice, cooked or raw...always have some on hand! Mom made a spinach salad with red onion rings, boiled eggs, mandarin oranges and a wine vinegar dressing. Incredible!

 

[FarawayFriend]

Is this maybe the origin of "Eggs Florentine" (which is more or less Eggs Benedict plus spinach)? My significant one loves Eggs Benedict for breakfast, while I always consider them too heavy, because of the hollandaise sauce.

 

[FarawayFriend]

Spinach is one of my favorites...in salads, with rice, cooked or raw...always have some on hand! Mom made a spinach salad with red onion rings, boiled eggs, mandarin oranges and a wine vinegar dressing. Incredible!

That really sounds incredibly delicious!

 

[donna]

It does sound like it could be like Eggs Florentine. Will have to see there a history on it.