{"id":6968,"slug":"asparagus","title":"ASPARAGUS","description":"From The International Jewish Cook Book by Florence Kreisler Greenbaum.","ingredients_raw":["Asparagus","Salt","Slices of well-toasted bread","Butter"],"ingredients_norm":["asparagus","salt","toasted bread","butter"],"steps":["Cut off the woody part, scrape the lower part of the stalks.","Wash well and tie in bunches.","Put into a deep stew-pan, with the cut end resting on the bottom of the stew-pan.","Pour in boiling water to come up to the tender heads, but not to cover them.","Add one teaspoon of salt for each quart of water.","Place where the water will boil.","Cook until tender, having the cover partially off the stew-pan. This will be from fifteen to thirty minutes, depending upon the freshness and tenderness of the vegetable.","Have some slices of well-toasted bread on a platter. Butter them slightly.","Arrange the cooked asparagus on the toast, season with butter and a little salt and serve at once.","Save the water in which the asparagus was boiled to use in making vegetable soup."],"categories":[],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":null,"source_name":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12350","source_ref":"pg:12350:w29:9","authors_url":null,"license":"Public domain (US)","license_url":null,"extraction_confidence":0.95,"content_hash":"7d97324e4a04ab921893f9f8ef1e026791156deb21cde9f2c194242653164b37","created_at":"2026-08-02T16:56:21Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:32Z","notice":"Historical recipe, reproduced as published: it may reflect its era's ingredients, language, and food-safety practices. Apply modern judgment on cooking temperatures and preservation.","url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/asparagus"}