Fricasseed Asparagus

Ingredients

• a quarter of a hundi'ed heads of asparagus
• a piece of butter the size of an egg
• a dessert-spoonful of flour
• half a pint of stock
• a small onion

Method

1. 1

   Wash and cut the tender portion of asparagus.

2. 2

   Chop with lettuce, endive, and onion.

3. 3

   Melt butter, mix in flour and stock, add vegetables, and stew gently until thick.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 180. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a quarter of a hundi'ed heads of asparagus, cut off the tender portion, and lay them into cold water until they are required. Dixiin them, and chop them -with a young lettuce, half a head of endive, and a small onion. Put a piece of butter the size of an egg into a sauce- pan, melt it, then mix with it smoothly a dessert-spoonful of floui- and half a pint of stock. Add the chopped vegetables, with jjepper and salt, and let all stew gently until the sauce is thick and good. Serve hot. Time to stew, half an hour. Probable cost for this quantity, Is. Asparagus, Preneh Method of Cooking. — AYash and boil the asparagus about t\\-enty minutes ; then ch-ain them, and cut off the heads and about two inches of the tender part of the stalks; mince them small, and mix with them an onion also choiDped small. Add the weU-beaten yolk of an egg, salt and i^ei^i^er. Slake it hot, put a slice of toast upon it, and pour a good sauce over all, or sijipets of toasted bread may be placed under it. Probable cost, 2s. 6d. -pev hundi-ed, when fullj' ,in season. Allow one hundi-ed for six persons. Asparagus Heads as Peas.— Take off about two inches of the head-ends of the asparagus ; cut them into pieces about the size of peas, and put them into a saucepan with some cold salt and water. Let them boil about ten minutes; then take them out, di-ain them, melt a piece of butter the size of an egg in a saucepan, and place them in it. Shake the saucepan over the fire for a few minutes : then sprinkle a dessert-spoonful of flour

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