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Asparagus Peas

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. a glass of cream
  2. Cut
  3. Sugar
  4. Water
  5. three ounces of fresh butter
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Scale sprue grass, cut it into pieces the size of ]»eas, as far as the green part extends, wash, and put them into a stewpan.
  2. To a quart of grass pease add half-a-pint of hot water, slightly salted, and boil them till nearly done ;
  3. then strain and preserve the liquor;
  4. toil it till nearly reduced ;
  5. put to it three ounces of fresh butter, a glass of cream, a little sifted sugar, Hour and water, add the pease, stew them till tender, and serve them up on the top of a French roll, toasted, and buttered in a dish.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Sieve