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To Cook Asparagus

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Cook Asparagus

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the asparagus in salt water.

  2. Tie the asparagus in bundles.

  3. Place the bundles in a saucepan of boiling water.

  4. Add coarse sea salt and baking soda.

  5. Boil uncovered until tender, then drain.

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.

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