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Green Peas
From Virginia Cookery-book, 1884
Serves 4
Shell peas just before cooking for best flavor.
Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Virginia Cookery-book (1884) by Mary Stuart Smith, page 67. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Gbeen Peas. Gather them in the morning, when quite yotthg, the pods being firm but not hard, and keep them in a cool place. Do not shell them until just before they are to be cooked. Put into boiling water slightly salted ; boil fast for twenty or thirty minutes, according to their age; 136 VIMQINJA COOKERY-BOOK. drain all the water from them; put in a dessert-spoonful of butter, a little pepper
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