Summer asparagus soup

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       Title: SUMMER ASPARAGUS SOUP
  Categories: Soups
       Yield: 4 Servings
  
    2.00 tb Butter
    1.00    Onion, chopped
    1.50 lb Asparagus, fresh
    2.00 tb Flour
    6.00 c  Water, boiling
    2.00 ts Salt
    0.25 c  Chicken broth, rich
            -(optional)
    2.00    Egg yolks
    0.50 c  Milk
  
   Melt the butter in a pan big enough to cook the soup.  Saute the
   onions for a few minutes, until transparent but not brown.
   
   Meanwhile, slice the asparagus into thin slices.  Now add the sliced
   asparagus pieces to the onions and continue to saute (over medium to
   medium-high heat) for 15 minutes, until most of the moisture has
   steamed out of the asparagus and the mixture has just barely started
   to brown.
   
   Add the flour to the onion/asparagus mixture and stir well to coat
   each piece with some flour. Cook for 2 or 3 more minutes over
   medium-high heat. Dump the boiling water into the asparagus mixture.
   Add the (optional) chicken broth and the salt. Simmer for 1 hour.
   
   Strain out the cooked asparagus, leaving behind a thin yellow-green
   soup. Thicken the soup with the 2 egg yolks.  Add the milk and reheat
   the soup to serving temperature.  Add salt and fresh-ground white
   pepper to taste. Serve immediately.
   
   NOTES:
   
   *  A light and simple asparagus soup -- Every summer, it seems,  the
   grocery stores are glutted with cheap asparagus. Most of the
 classical
   recipes for asparagus soup produce a hearty winter-style soup. Here's
   a simple recipe for a delicious, light, thin soup that is more in
   keeping with the time of the year that the glut occurs. You can leave
   out the chicken broth to make it a meatless soup, but it does require
   egg yolks. Yield:  Serves 4-6.
   
   *  The slicing disk on a food processor does an excellent job of
   slicing the asparagus for this recipe. You can use a food mill, a
   china cap, or an ordinary sieve to strain the cooked asparagus out of
   the broth.
   
   *  Don't try to make this soup as a low-salt soup by leaving out the
   salt.
    It will taste like dishwater if you cook the asparagus for an hour
   without salt. Don't try to skimp on time by leaving the cooked
   asparagus in the broth unstrained. It will ruin the texture.
   
   : Difficulty:  easy to moderate (thickening soup with egg yolks is
   not a beginner's skill).
   : Time:  10 minutes preparation, 1 hour simmering, 5 minutes
   finishing. : Precision:  Approximate measurement OK.
   
   : Brian Reid
   : DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, California, USA
   : reid@decwrl.dec.com
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