Original 1914 recipe
Verbatim from the first edition of the Big Cookbook.

Erken's method for canned asparagus: scraped, soaked in cold water for 30 min, blanched standing upright for 5 min in salted water (10 g/l), cooled, packed in jars with fresh-boiled brine and sterilized 1 hour at 100 degrees C.
Source: Henriette Schønberg Erken, Stor kokebok, 1914-utg. s. 609 (falt i det fri)
From the chapter "Grønsaker, hermetiske" (preserved vegetables) in Stor kokebok (1914). Erken opens the chapter by noting that the vegetables must be fresh, cleaned and rinsed well, blanched in water with 10 g salt per liter, cooled in cold water and packed in jars at once. Brine: 20 g salt per liter of water if the vegetables are blanched in steam, 10 g per liter if they are blanched in salt water.
Prepare the asparagus
Scrape the asparagus carefully from the tip downward, and cut off the tough ends.
Soak in water
Soak the asparagus in fresh, cold water for 30 minutes. Change the water every ten minutes.
Blanch
Set the asparagus upright in the pot so the tips do not go under the water. Boil for 5 minutes in 1 liter of boiling water with 10 g salt.
Cool
Put the asparagus in cold water for 5 minutes.
Pack in jars
Place the asparagus in the jar tips first, and pour over fresh-boiled salt-water solution in the same proportion as the blanching water (10 g salt per liter).
Sterilize
Sterilize the jars 1 hour at 100 degrees C in a water bath. If using the "Norge" preserving jar, tighten the lid a little more after boiling.
Amounts are set up as a structured ingredient list with modern units (liters/grams). "Forvelles" (parboil) is kept but explained as blanching in the steps. Sterilization is described as a water bath at 100 degrees C.
Original 1914 recipe
Verbatim from the first edition of the Big Cookbook.

Revised 1949 recipe
From the revised edition of the Big Cookbook.

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