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Pea Soup

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Pea Soup

Pea Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. 1 We measure and wash our peas.

  2. 2 We measure our cold water, and add to them, and put on to heat.

  3. 138 ■ LESSON NINTH.

  4. 3 We scrape and cut our strips of salt pork, and fry with a part of an onion

  5. 4 We put the onion and pork into the soup.

  6. 5 We add a sah-spoonful of celery seed and salt.

  7. 6 We cover closely, and boil together four or five hours.

  8. 7 When cooked soft we rub through a colander. Now it is finished.

By Emily Huntington (1841–1909). 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. See the original page.

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