Green Pea Soup

Ingredients

• a can of peas
• a quart of chicken stock
• a cupful of cream or milk
• two tablespoonfuls of butter
• two of flour
• an onion
• salt and pepper

Method

1. 1

   Cook onion, peas, and stock together for 20 minutes; remove onion and rub peas and stock through a sieve.

2. 2

   Return to stew-pan, simmer for 10 minutes.

3. 3

   Rub butter and flour to cream, add half a cup of soup, then pour into stew-pan.

4. 4

   Add pepper, salt, and cream; boil for 3 minutes to finish.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 66. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Green Pea Soup. This soup is made of a can of peas, a quart of chicken stock, a cupful of cream or milk, two table-spoonfuls of butter, two of flour, an onion, and salt and pepper. Cook the onion, peas, and stock together for twenty minutes ; then remove the onion, and rub the peas and stock through a sieve. Return the soup to the stew-pan, and let it simmer for ten minutes. Rub the butter and flour to a cream, and gradually add to this half a cupful of the soup; then pour the mixture into the stew-pan. Add the pepper and salt and cupful of cream ; and after the soup has boiled for three minutes, it will be finished. A much more delicious soup can be made of fresh green peas when they are in season. Asparagus Soup. Use a can of asparagus, a pint of white stock, a pint of cream or milk, two table-spoonfuls of butte

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