Mary Rattley’s Asparagus Soufflé

How to Make

• 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.