Vegetables Asparagus Toast

asparagus toast.

(from White Cloud Kansas Chief, White Cloud, Kansas, May 28, 1868)

Ingredients:

asparagus stalks​

salted water​

sliced bread​

butter​

Instructions:

Tie the stalks in small bunches, boil them in a very little salted water until tender; toast as many slices of bread as there are bunches of asparagus, butter them while hot, lay a bunch on each slice of toast, add a little butter to the water, and pour it over the whole.​

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Art by: Francois Bonvin, 1887​

As avocado toast has been popular long enough now to become ordinary, I recommend we get ahead of the next trend and start serving asparagus toast! No need to tell our Instagram followers that the recipe comes from 1868

And if you want to increase the cachet of your new dish, tell people it's healthy for the lungs! Or so lays The Fayetteville Observer in Fayetteville, TN (October 24, 1867).

 

[MRB1863]

If we knew how good asparagus is for you when we were kids, we probably would have never tried it! MrsMRB1863 and I prefer ours lightly steamed with a sprinkle of lemon pepper. So tasty!!!!!!

 

[donna]

I have always liked asparagus. But then I have always liked many vegetables that kids never liked. I think it was way my Mom prepared them.

 

[JPChurch]

I love asparagus. I had plants in the garden for almost 15 years before they petered out. It's loaded with purines, so go light with the servings if you are prone to gout attacks. The fresh stuff picked in the morning is tops. What you get in the grocery store is not comparable in any way.

 

[Eleanor Rose]

Great share @lupaglupa !

 

[EJ Zander]

Good timing heading out back to harvest some now.
Pan fried with butter or boiled with corn.

 

[JPChurch]

Good timing heading out back to harvest some now.
Pan fried with butter or boiled with corn.

I steam mine and put some unsalted butter on it once done, then sprinkle with ground pepper.

 

[donna]

Mrs. Randolph has recipe for asparagus toast too. As asparagus was really liked by Thomas Jefferson. He grew at Monticello. It served at White House when he was there many times.