Boiled Dried Peas

Ingredients

• the peas
• 1 oz. of butter

Method

1. 1

   Soak the peas for 12 hours, then drain and put into boiling water with salt and soda.

2. 2

   Simmer for 2 hours, drain, add butter, season with pepper and salt, reheat, and scatter with finely-chopped parsley before serving.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How to cook vegetables (1911) by Charles Herman Senn, page 67. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Boiled Dried Peas. Soak the peas, after washing in cold water, for 12 hours. Next day drain the water from the peas and put them into boiling water containing a little salt and soda in it. When boiling, draw the pan to the side of the fire, and let them simmer for 2 hours, if they boil too fast they will go to a pulp ; drain them and put in a clean saucepan with 1 oz. of butter

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