Wilted Spinach Salad with Warm Bacon Dressing

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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?

SERVES 4 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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