Asparagus Toast

Ingredients

• asparagus
• one teaspoon flour
• a lump of butter
• salt
• pepper
• thin slices of bread

Method

1. 1

   Wash asparagus, cut off white part, boil in salted water for 5 minutes, then add more boiling water and boil for 10-15 minutes.

2. 2

   Add butter, salt, pepper, and optional thickening.

3. 3

   Toast bread, spread with butter, and top with asparagus and gravy.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 39. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Asparagus Toast — ^Wash the asparagus clean, cut oflf the white part except a mere end, put into sligntly salted boiling water, boil five minutes, pour off water, add more boiling hot ; boil ten to fifteen minutes, then put in a lump of butter, salt and pepper (some stir in a thickening made of one teaspoon flour mixed up with cold water) ; cut and toast thin slices of bread

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