Split Pea Soup
Ingredients
Directions
Wash the split peas.
Boil the peas in 3 quarts of water for 3 hours.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Split peas
- Break down during long simmering to thicken the soup and give it body.
The step that matters
Boiling the peas for the full 3 hours. Split peas need a long, steady simmer to soften fully and release starch that thickens the soup. Stopping early leaves them firm and the broth thin.
“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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