Mary Rattley’s Asparagus Soufflé

Step 1: Take one tablespoon butter and rub into it one and a half tablespoons flour and add one cupful cream [over low heat]. Cook until creamy and add the yolks of four eggs.

Step 2: Beat this mixture for five minutes and add salt and pepper to taste, the fold in one cup of asparagus tips, fresh asparagus preferred.

Step 3: [remove from heat].

Step 4: Then add the whites of four eggs, beaten stiff, [fold in] and put into a hot buttered (which you have put in oven while preheating)soufflé dish,

Step 5: Set the dish in a shallow pan of water and bake for thirty-five minutes in a moderate oven.

Step 6: (Dont open oven)

Step 7: (350 degrees)

Step 8: It will stand up and look beautiful. Before you take it out of the oven, grease with butter and serve at once.