Wilted Spinach Salad with Warm Bacon Dressing

Name: Wilted Spinach Salad with Warm Bacon Dressing
Yield: Serves 4 to 6 as a first course
Ingredients: 3 , large eggs; 6 ounces, baby spinach (about 8 cups); 3 tablespoons, cider vinegar; 1/2 teaspoon, granulated sugar; 1/4 teaspoon, ground black pepper; pinch, table salt; 8 slices, thick-cut bacon (about 10 ounces) cut into 1/2-inch pieces; 1/2 , medium red onion, chopped medium (about 1/2 cup); 1 small clove, garlic, minced or pressed through a garlic press (about 1/2 teaspoon)

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2003, America's Test Kitchen TV

Requiring just a handful of ingredients, a good warm spinach salad ought to be quick and easy. Why, then, are there so many greasy, dull, or lifeless versions around?

SERVES4 to 6 as a first course

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a spinach salad recipe that would give us wilted but not swampy greens, we started with rewashed, bagged baby spinach, which was tender and sweet. Thickly cut bacon added presence in our spinach salad recipe, and hard-cooked egg wedges ...

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