To boil ASPARAGUS

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Ingredients (4)
for boiling asparagus
for serving
Instructions (7)
  1. Scrape your asparagus, tie them in small bunches.
  2. Boil them in a large pan of water with salt in it.
  3. Before you dish them up toast some slices of white bread.
  4. Dip the toasted bread in the boiling water.
  5. Lay the asparagus on your toasts.
  6. Pour on them very rich melted butter.
  7. Serve them up hot.
Original Text
To boil ASPARAGUS. SCRAPE your asparagus, tie them in small bunches, boil them in a large pan of water with salt in it; before you dish them up toast some slices of white bread, and dip them in the boil- ing water, lay the asparagus on your toasts, pour on them very rich melted butter, and serve them up hot.
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