Cream of Pea Soup

Ingredients

• one pint of peas
• three cups of milk
• one tablespoon of flour
• two of milk
• one cup of sweet cream
• salt
• pepper

Method

1. 1

   Cook tender, one pint of peas; remove from fire, and put half of them aside.

2. 2

   Mash the other half through colander; add water in which they are cooked.

3. 3

   Scald three cups of milk; rub one tablespoon of milk and two of flour together until smooth; add to the boiling milk; then add mashed peas, stirring until thick.

4. 4

   Just before removing from the fire stir in the whole peas, one cup of sweet cream, salt and pepper; serve.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Granite City cook book (1900) by Ladies Aid Society of the Presbyterian Church (Mount Airy, N.C.), page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CREAM OF PEA SOUP. Cook tender, one pint of peas; re- move from fire, and put half of them aside. Mash the other half through colander; add water in which they are cooked. Scald three cups of milk; rub one tablespoon of milk and two of flour together until smooth; add to the boiling milk; then add mashed epas, stirring until thick. Just before lemoving from the fire stir in the whole peas one cup of sweet cream, salt and pepper

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