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must be well cleaned, but not rinsed. The oven ought to be moderately hot. Well
cleaned iron plates are used. Butter them with melted butter, over which spread
the spinach thinly and put in oven. Take it out after a little while and cut the
spinach loose with a knife and then spread it on a linen to dry in a warm room.
When to be used, put it in tepid water for 2 hours and then scald it in an iron
kettle. Lastly chop it and stew it as if fresh.
To dry cauliflower.
Cut cauliflower heads in small pieces, which clean neatly and string up by the
stalk on strong threads. In that way hold them boiling, and then put them on
linen, which suspend in a warm room or a garret, where the sun does not reach
them. Spread them with big spaces between each. It dries slowly and becomes
brown. Before cooking
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