Asparagus Soup with Vegetables

Ingredients

• i bundle asparagus
• 2 oz. butter
• 1 oz. flour
• 3 pints white stock
• 1 pint milk
• 1 gill cream
• a handful cooked green peas and beans
• salt
• pepper
• sugar
• nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Clean the asparagus, cut off the tips, and cook separately for garnish.

2. 2

   Cut the tender stalks into small pieces, wash, boil in salted water, and drain.

3. 3

   Melt butter, add flour, then stock and milk.

4. 4

   Boil, skim, add asparagus, season, and cook until tender.

5. 5

   Rub through a sieve, return to pan, add cream and more milk if needed.

6. 6

   Pour over cooked peas, beans, and asparagus tips in a soup tureen.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How to cook vegetables (1911) by Charles Herman Senn, page 9. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Asparagus Soup with Vegetables. i bundle asparagus, 2 oz. butter, 1 oz. flour, 3 pints white stock, 1 pint milk, 1 gill cream, a handful cooked green peas and beans, salt, pepper, sugar, and nutmeg

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