Green Peas

Ingredients

• a quart of green pease
• a half-pint of boiling water
• lightly with salt
• lightly with pepper
• a little butter
• a little sweet cream

Method

1. 1

   To a quart of green peas, add a half-pint of boiling water, cover closely, and simmer gently until very tender, with nearly all the water evaporated.

2. 2

   Season lightly with salt and pepper, adding butter or sweet cream.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking and castle-building (1880) by Emma P. Ewing, Marietta McPherson Greenough, page 39. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

green pease, the first of the season, and both were unfit to eat by reason of beino^ under- done — that is, raAv. After tasting the pease, I shoved them away in disgust, and with an injured feeling v.^hich I think not conducive' to digestion, I picked out bits of lamb so far cooked that the squeaking sound it made while undergoing friction from my teeth, in a very faint degree resembled the far-oft' bleating of a lamb ; and that resem- blance, I'm certain, was pure imagination, for I have no doubt the lamb was dead, even if it was not cooked. Had the pease been sufficiently boiled, they would still have been nearly worth- BREAKFAST-TABLE GOSSIP. 95 less, as our cook belongs to that class of idiots Avho drain pease ; deliberately pour away their life and sweetness, leaving for our nourishment only the dry husks. I hope in your book you will cas- tigate such cooks severely. Another senseless practice is to boil i^ease in a bag, in a pot of water. The only advantage this method has is, that soup is sometimes made of the water — which is a very questionable one ; for to eat soup in warm weather, in order to save the juice of the pease, is like the economy of taking medicine to prevent its being wasted. I doubt if you can give a better receipt for cooking green pease than this : To a quart of green pease add a half-pint of boiling water, cover closcl}^ and simmer gently until very tender, at which time the water should be nearly evaporated. Season lightly with salt and pepper, adding a little l)utter

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