Happy Easter!
Easter is such a special time of year. It’s so much fun coloring eggs with children or grandchildren – but it’s often then a challenge to figure out ways to eat the eggs. So I was pleased to find a recipe for Eggs with Asparagus in a hundred-year-old cookbook.
The Eggs with Asparagus is a classic recipe with the asparagus topped with chopped hard-boiled eggs embedded in a white sauce.
Here’s the original recipe:
Here’s the original recipe:
Here’s the recipe updated for modern cooks:
Eggs with Asparagus
1 bunch asparagus (about 1 pound), cut into 1-inch pieces
1 cup water
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons flour
dash pepper
1/2 cup heavy cream
2 hard-boiled eggs, finely chopped
Put the asparagus, salt, and water in a saucepan, and bring to a boil using high heat; reduce heat and simmer until tender (about 3 minutes). Remove from heat and drain, reserve the water that was used for cooking.
Meanwhile in another saucepan, melt the butter. Stir the flour and pepper into the butter. While stirring constantly, slowly pour in the water that was used for cooking the asparagus and the cream; bring to a boil using medium heat while stiring constantly. Stir in the chopped eggs (reserve a small amount of the yolk for garnish). Remove from heat and pour over rthe cooked asparagus. Garnish with the chopped egg yolk.
A Hundred Years Ago 
A good way to use up some of those eggs.
Agree- it’s a nice way to use up some of those eggs.
Perfect! I love that she used the asparagus water for the sauce, that’s something I would tell people to do!
I also liked that suggestion. It adds a bit more flavor and keeps many vitamins from being thrown away.
Mrs. B. C. Painter of New Brighton, PA was quite the entertainer. January 1923, she entertained 200 guests at a reception in her home. I wonder if she served old-fashioned eggs with asparagus?
Whew, that’s a lot of people. I suppose that fairly prominent people in the community were members of the hospital’s guild – and that some like Mrs. Painter did a lot of entertaining. It would be fun if we could go back in time and attend one of her parties.
A hard pass on this one! A waste of good eggs!
You should give it a try. It’s a nice recipe.