Asparagus Soup

This Asparagus Soup recipe comes to us from a copy of Mrs. Beeton's Cookery Book that I picked up at an antiques market. The strange thing about this edition is that there's no publication date printed inside! The internet generally agrees that my copy was printed in either 1923 or 1925, but whatever the publication date, I love its cover design.

Our soup recipe contains asparagus, of course, and also a lot of spinach. The spinach in this soup provides the vibrant green colour, but most of the flavour comes from the asparagus. The puréed creamy soup is offset nicely with the tender asparagus tips, that provide a nice variety in the texture and a flavour pop to boost.