Old Portland Post Office Cafe Spinach Salad

Recipe Ingredients

		Salad
2		Spinach - washed, torn
3		Hard-cooked eggs
1/4 lb	113g / 4oz	Fresh mushrooms - thinly sliced
3		Bacon
1/3 cup	20g / 0.7oz	Sweet onion - finely chopped
		Cafe House Salad Dressing
1 teaspoon	5ml	Fine herbs
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml	Granulated garlic
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml	Salt
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml	Black pepper
3/4 teaspoon	3.8ml	Paprika
2 tablespoons	30ml	Molasses
2		Lea and Perrins
1 cup	237ml	Salad oil
1/2 cup	118ml	Red wine vinegar

Recipe Instructions

Directions for salad:

1. Wash, dry, and tear spinach into a large salad bowl.

2. Peel and slice hard-cooked eggs.

3. Fry bacon until crisp. Drain, and break into bits.

4. Top spinach leaves with eggs and mushroom slices, crumbled bacon and onion.

Serve with Cafe house dressing.

Directions for Cafe house dressing:

1. Mix all dry ingredients.

2. Add molasses and lea and Perrins. Mix.

3. Add oil and wine vinegar; mix well.

Source:
Dining In Portland, A Collection of Gourmet Recipes for Complete Meals from Portland's Finest Restaurants by Muriel Bevilacqua Logan and Emily Crumpacker, 1979.

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