Dried Peas and Oatmeal

Ingredients

• 1 quart peas
• 4 onions, sliced
• 1 pound bacon or fat salt pork
• 2 tablespoonfuls sugar
• 6 quarts cold water
• Pepper and salt
• 6 or 8 ounces, or enough oatmeal mush to thicken the mixture

Method

1. 1

   Cleanse and cut the meat into half-inch pieces; put it into a dry pot over the fire with the sliced onions and fry brown, stirring constantly.

2. 2

   Add the pepper, salt, and sugar, then add the water and peas, which have been soaked and drained.

3. 3

   Cover, and boil gently until the peas become soft, stirring frequently; then stir in the oatmeal, simmer for twenty minutes, and serve hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Manual for army cooks (1896) by United States. War Dept. Subsistence Dept., page 63. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

DRIED PEAS AND OATMEAL. 1 quart peas. 4 onions, sliced. I pound bacon or fat salt i)ork. 2 tablespoonf uls sugar. () quarts cold water. Pepper and salt. 6 or 8 ounces, or enough oatmeal mush to thicken the mixture

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