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Green peas boiled with pepper, salt, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Green Peas

Green Peas

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Shell the peas and wash them in cold water.

  2. Put them in boiling water, just enough to cover them well and keep them from burning.

  3. Boil from twenty minutes to half an hour, until the liquid is nearly boiled out.

  4. Season with pepper and salt and a good allowance of butter.

  5. Serve very hot.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

6Calories
0 gProtein
0 gFat
2 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 2 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By F. L. Gillette and Hugo Ziemann. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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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The step that matters

Boil until the liquid is nearly gone. Stopping too early leaves the peas watery, while boiling too long makes them soft and dull in colour. Checking as the liquid reduces helps you land on the texture you want.

“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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