Cream Of Asparagus Recipe ingredients

• 2 bunches of asparagus
• 1 small onion
• 1 pint milk
• ¼ pint rich cream
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 tablespoon flour
• salt and pepper

To prepare this Cream Of Asparagus Recipe, first cut off the asparagus tips and boil separately to use as salad. Cut the stalks in short pieces to facilitate straining, boil in one pint of salted water until tender; mash and strain, with the water in which they were cooked, through a colander. Lift the tips carefully from the water, keeping them unbroken. Add this water to the asparagus pulp, put it with the hot milk.