Spinach with Hot Bacon Dressing
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This dressing is sweet and tangy—well worth the effort for a homemade dressing. You can also serve it over other greens or even potato salad.
--Peggy Fleming
SERVINGS: 4
CATEGORY: Salads
METHOD: Other stovetop
TIME: Prep/Total Time: 15 min.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1-1/2 teaspoons celery seed
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 teaspoon ground mustard
- 2 cups milk
- 3/4 cup cider vinegar
- 1/2 cup butter, cubed
- 3 eggs, lightly beaten
- 4 bacon strips, cooked and crumbled
- 3 hard-cooked eggs, chopped
- Torn fresh spinach
Directions:
In a saucepan, combine the sugar, cornstarch, celery seed, salt and mustard. Gradually stir in milk and vinegar. Add butter. Cook and stir until mixture comes to a boil; cook and stir for 1-2 minutes or until thickened and bubbly.
Stir a small amount of hot liquid into beaten eggs; return all to the pan. Cook and stir 1 minute longer. Stir in bacon and hard-cooked eggs. Serve immediately over spinach. Yield: about 4 cups.