This section is from the book "Practical Cooking And Serving", by Janet McKenzie Hill. Also available from Amazon: Practical Cooking and Serving: A Complete Manual of How to Select, Prepare, and Serve Food [1919].
Make a sauce of three level tablespoonfuls, each, of butter and flour, and half a cup, each, of chicken broth, cream, and the water in which a bunch of asparagus has been boiled. Add the beaten yolks of two eggs, a teaspoonful of lemon juice, salt and pepper, and a bunch of hot asparagus, cut in small pieces and cooked until tender. Serve in hot puff-paste shells, in cases made of fritter batter or in bread croustades.
 
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