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Peas

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Peas

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the peas for about 10 minutes until thoroughly cooked.

  2. Plunge the cooked peas in cold water for a few seconds.

  3. Fill bottles with boiling salt water.

  4. Close the bottles immediately with covers and clips.

  5. Return the bottles to the Sterilizer with boiling brine for 60 minutes at above 210°F (99°C).

  6. Remove bottles one at a time and fill to the brim with boiling water.

  7. If desired, add a few teaspoons of Harmless Green Colouring to each bottle.

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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