Name: Bottlxd Asparagus
Ingredients: asparagus; water; coarse sea salt (formerly 'bay salt')

Bottlxd Asparagus

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

asparagus
water
coarse sea salt (formerly 'bay salt')

Directions

Prepare the asparagus by removing the tough ends as you would for boiling.
Blanch the asparagus in boiling water, then immediately transfer to cold water.
Carefully place the unbroken asparagus into bottles with the heads facing downwards.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.