Spinach mat

A spinach mat (also called spinach color or spinach green ) is used to color foods such as sauces or pasta .

To make it, spinach is pounded in a mortar , the resulting juice is strained through a cloth, heated in a water bath until the juice coagulates and finally the released liquid is poured off. The remaining "mat" can then be used as a dye.

literature

• Sophie Wilhelmine Scheibler: General German cookbook for all stands, or thorough instructions to prepare all types of food and baked goods in the cheapest and tastiest way: An indispensable manual for budding housemothers and cooks , edition 17, CF Amelang, 1866, p. 26