Baked Dried Peas

Ingredients

• 3 pints dried peas
• 7 quarts cold water
• 3 pounds bacon or salt pork

Method

1. 1

   Pick over the peas; wash, and soak them overnight in cold water; drain and put them into a pot with the meat, cover and boil gently.

2. 2

   Remove the scum as it rises.

3. 3

   When the peas become soft, drain, mash, and put them into a baking dish, smooth the top, place the meat on top, put the dish into the oven, and bake brown.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Manual for army cooks (1896) by United States. War Dept. Subsistence Dept., page 62. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BAKED DRIED PEAS. 3 pints dried peas. 7 quarts cold water. 3 pounds bacon or salt pork

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