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Clear Soup with Green Pease

A clear soup made with green peas, simmered in salted water and served with broth.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Clear Soup with Green Pease

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the peas in salted water until tender but not broken.

  2. Drain the peas thoroughly.

  3. Place the peas in a tureen and pour the boiling soup over the peas.

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

Green peas
Provide the main body and flavor of the soup, cooked until tender but intact.

The step that matters

Boil the peas until tender but not broken. Overcooking softens the peas' skins and starch structure until they break apart, making the soup cloudy and mushy instead of clear with whole peas. Stopping at tender keeps the peas intact and the broth clean.

“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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