Green Pea Soup

Ingredients

• 1 oz. butter
• 1 sprig of mint
• 1 peck green peas
• ^ teaspoonful salt
• teaspoonful white pepper
• 2 pints cold water
• 3 spring onions
• 1 lump sugar

Method

1. 1

   Melt butter in a pan, add mint and washed, broken peas with salt and pepper.

2. 2

   Toss until coated in butter, then add cold water and boil with spring onions until soft enough to sieve.

3. 3

   Return to pan, add sugar, stir until boiling, and serve with fried or toasted bread.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Tried favourites cookery book (1909) by Kirk, E. W. Mrs, page 20. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Green Pea. Soup. Put in pan 1 oz. butter. When melted, add 1 sprig of mint, and i peck green peas, shells and all, the latter well washed and broken up, ^ teaspoonful salt, and teaspoonful white pepper. Toss over fire until they have taken in all the butter. Tlien add 2 pints cold water, and let all boil together with 3 spring onions till soft enough to pass through wire sieve. Then return to pan with 1 lump sugar

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