Boiled Peas
From Easy dishes for small incomes, or, The housewife's guide to practical cookery, 1906
If peas are old, add 1 teaspoon of sugar to the water.
Presented as published in 1906. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Easy dishes for small incomes, or, The housewife's guide to practical cookery (1906) by E. M. Buchan, page 13. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
BOILED PEAS 1. Shell the peas. 2. Prepare a pan of boiling water and allow one dessertspoonful of salt to every quart of water. 3. Throw the peas into the water, add a sprig of mint and boil for twenty minutes. 4. Strain through a sieve or colander, serve at once in a hot dish and place a small piece of butter
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