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Green Peas, to Preserve for Winter Use

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Green Peas, to Preserve for Winter Use

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Gather the peas when plentiful and shell them.

  2. Wash and scald the peas in hot water.

  3. Drain the peas thoroughly.

  4. Pack the peas into bottles and fill each with a strong brine made from water and salt.

  5. Top each bottle with a thin layer of salad oil.

  6. Cork and seal the bottles, ensuring they are full and kept upright.

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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