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Pea Soup

A soup made from pea meal, refined fat, and water, optionally with meat or bacon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Pea Soup

Pea Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix pea meal with a proportion of refined fat to form small cakes.

  2. Boil the cakes in water, meat broth, or bacon broth for 30 minutes.

  3. Add meat or bacon for a richer flavor if desired.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Pea meal
Forms the body of the soup and thickens it as the starch cooks.
Refined fat
Binds the pea meal into cakes and adds richness to the finished soup.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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