Asparagus - "Royal" vegetables

German Comfort Food: "Asparagus, Royal Vegetable"

When you heard that you are in Germany in Germany, "What's for dinner tonight?", "Asparagus is, of course!

Asparagus is a vegetable, it boasts incredible popularity in Germany. Especially in the season, few people like us like the Germans make a riot comparable around this vegetable.

Asparagus is used in various dishes all over the world, it is by no means a German vegetable.
So why do Germans love asparagus?

If we look at the one minute history we will find possible answers.

Since ancient times, asparagus is well known and liked its taste and health benefits. Needless to say, the Chinese have the highest likelihood of discovering asparagus as food and healing plants.

Their discovery spread to the Greeks, the Persians, of course the Romans who were absolutely passionate about asparagus.

For the Romans, asparagus was an important part no matter how fast (and they had plenty of people). Before that, a detailed explanation of how to cultivate and cultivate asparagus is the early 175 BC

The legend is that Emperor Augustus of the Roman Empire was very obsessed with Asparagus and used it to command his servant.

It is said that all the orders ended with the phrase "citius quam asparagus coqunatur". This is "this is earlier than the time it takes to cook asparagus!

As we all know, when the Roman Empire spread all over Europe it brought not only death and destruction but also good things. One of them will be asparagus. Native immediately discovered their interests and started cultivating asparagus that thrives forever.

In Germany, there are areas along the river, especially the river, the Danube, the Rhine and the River Main, and has soil and climate suitable for cultivating this small jewel. It turned out that asparagus was even exported from its Germanic region to the Romans.

However, in the following century, asparagus was no longer cultured on a large scale. Perhaps it is possible due to its complexity and input of working asparagus demand from growers. It was mainly found in the little abbey garden where the monks cultivated it for their health benefits.

In the 17th century, there was a German royalty, and asparagus again discovered the taste for himself, which slowly spread to other good houses in the country.
For ordinary people and poor, asparagus never made it on the dinner table, but the workload of growth seemed to be high for certainly tasty vegetables , Hardly nourish industrious men and women, can enjoy a few weeks in a year. At that time, they knew little about what nutritious vegetable asparagus is.

In the 19th century when preservation was invented, asparagus went out of control in Germany. Many farmers decided to cultivate asparagus on a large scale. And so when asparagus turned from green to white in Germany.

The farmers covered the slips to keep the soil warm and left as light as asparagus was in the basement.

It has a taste, people have discovered that it is better and more subtle than green asparagus, after that they are white asparagus purchased by people.

As you can see, I am talking about asparagus in relation to German cuisine, but in fact it is mainly talking about white asparagus.
White asparagus is just a cult of Germany.

There are many areas where white asparagus is cultivated in Germany. Talking with people in the area, I swear that their asparagus is the best.

It reminds people of the people who support the local sports team. They will never pass asparagus from another area to their lips.

Of course, many recipes were rejected from this love of white asparagus. I would like to tell you the recipe for 'White Asparagus Soup':

Material:

One pound. White asparagus
3 cups of salt water
1 cup of sugar
4 1/2 oz. butter
1 1/2 oz. Wheat flour
1 cup of chicken stock (powder)
1 egg yolk
1/2 cup of cream
Lemon juice 1/2 teaspoon
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1/2 Teaspoon of Pepper
Parsley (chopped)

Peel off the asparagus and cut it into junks. 1 - 1.5 inches long. Boil the salt water and add sugar. Let's add asparagus junk.

Boiling for appr. 15 minutes.

Strain water from asparagus, but do not waste water. Please catch with another pot or similar.

Heat 1.5 ounces butter and add flour when butter melts while continuously stirring.

Now slowly add the water of asparagus in separate pots.

Then add chicken stock and simmer for 15 minutes.

Add cooked asparagus junk.

Bubble cream, egg yolk and lemon juice together and pour little by little at once. While doing so, please make sure you stir it while doing very important things.

Please melt the remaining butter of the soup and taste with salt and pepper.

Shred and parsley parsley when you offer.