Asparagus Soup

Ingredients

• 4 large bunches asparagus
• 1 piece bacon
• 1 large onion
• pepper
• salt
• 2 quarts water
• 1 whole chicken
• flour
• butter
• milk

Instructions

1. Take four large bunches of asparagus and scrape it nicely.
2. Cut off one inch of the tops and lay them in water.
3. Chop the stalks and put them on the fire with a piece of bacon, a large onion cut up, and pepper and salt.
4. Add two quarts of water and boil them till the stalks are quite soft.
5. Pulp them through a sieve and strain the water to it, which must be put back in the pot.
6. Put into it a chicken cut up, with the tops of asparagus which had been laid by, and boil it until these last articles are sufficiently done.
7. Thicken with flour, butter and milk, and serve it up.