Green Pea Soup

Ingredients

• Green peas (shelled) ... pints.
• Lettuces (cut in small pieces) 2 or 3.
• Spinach a few leaves.
• Mint a sprig.
• Butter 2 oz.
• Flour J oz.
• Water (boiling) i pint.
• Pepper and salt.

Method

1. 1

   Put one pint of the peas into a stewpan with one ounce of butter, the mint, spinach, and half the lettuces.

2. 2

   Stir these about well so that the vegetables may steam in the butter for about ten minutes, but do not let them brown; then add the water, and simmer till tender.

3. 3

   Rub through a hair sieve.

4. 4

   Melt one ounce of butter in a pan, stir in the flour, add the puree; just boil.

5. 5

   Have ready-boiled a quarter of a pint of peas and the remainder of the lettuce; add these to the boiling soup.

6. 6

   Let all boil for five minutes.

7. 7

   Serve with croutons of fried bread.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Home cookery (1898) by North Midland School of Cookery, page 15. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Green Pea Soup, Green peas (shelled) ... pints. Lettuces (cut in small pieces) 2 or 3. Spinach a few leaves. Mint a sprig. Butter 2 oz. Flour J oz. Water (boiling) i pint. Pepper and salt.

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