Name: Asparagus Salad
Ingredients: 50 heads of cooked asparagus; mayonnaise or vinaigrette

Asparagus Salad

Ingredients

50 heads of cooked asparagus
mayonnaise or vinaigrette

Directions

Chill the cooked asparagus on ice for 2 to 3 hours.
Coat the tips of the asparagus with mayonnaise or vinaigrette.
Arrange the asparagus neatly on a serving dish and serve.

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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What each ingredient does

Asparagus: Forms the body of the salad and provides its main texture and flavor.
Mayonnaise or vinaigrette: Adds moisture, fat, and flavor that coat the asparagus tips.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.