Asparagus
Ingredients
Directions
Lay the asparagus in an earthen pot.
Make a brine strong enough to float an egg and pour it hot over the asparagus.
Keep the pot covered.
When ready to use, soak the asparagus in cold water for two hours.
Boil the asparagus and serve with butter.
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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