Asparagus Tips in Cream

Ingredients

• half a pint of cream sauce
• a can of asparagus tips

Method

1. 1

   Make cream sauce and season well.

2. 2

   Heat asparagus in its own water, drain, lay in a deep dish, and pour cream sauce over them.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Hotel St. Francis cook book (1919) by Hirtzler, Victor., page 195. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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