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Small Green Peas

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Small Green Peas

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Gather medium-sized peas, avoiding small ones as they soften in water.

  2. Shell the peas immediately after gathering.

  3. Separate the largest peas from the smaller ones.

  4. Pack the peas tightly into bottles.

  5. Seal the bottles and place them in a water bath.

  6. Boil for 1.5 hours if the season is cool and moist, or 2 hours if hot and dry.

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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