Green Pea Soup

Ingredients

• Four pounds of lean beef cut in small pieces
• one-half peck of green peas
• one gallon of water
• one-half cup of rice flour

Method

1. 1

   Boil the empty pods of the peas in the water for one hour; strain them out; add the beef and boil slowly for one and a half hours.

2. 2

   Half an hour before serving, strain out the meat and add the peas; twenty minutes later, add rice flour, salt, and pepper to taste, and if you choose, one teaspoon of sugar.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new home cook book (1896), page 29. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

GREEN PEA SOUP. Anonymous. Four pounds of lean beef cut in small pieces, one-half peck of green peas, one gallon of water ; boil the empty pods of the peas in the water one hour ; strain them out ; add the beef and boil slowly one and a half hours. Half an hour before serving strain out the meat and add the peas; twenty minutes later add one-half cup of rice flour

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