Green Peas with Mint

Ingredients

• a quart of water
• a pint of freshly shelled peas
• a salt-spoonful of salt
• one of sugar
• half an ounce of green mint
• castor sugar
• the freshest butter

Method

1. 1

   Boil a quart of water with salt, sugar, and mint.

2. 2

   Add a pint of peas, boil uncovered, then drain and remove the mint.

3. 3

   Dust with castor sugar and salt, and stir in enough butter to lubricate without greasiness.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Fifty dinners (1895) by A. R. Kenney-Herbert, page 13. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a pint of freshly shelled peas in this manner : — Put a quart of water on the fii'e, stirring into it a salt- spoonful of salt, one of sugar, and half an 5. Green^ ounce of green mint. When this boils, ^butter! ^ pour in a pint measure of freshly shelled peas, boil with the vessel uncovered, then drain, and pick out the mint. If you want a bright colour, never boil peas in a tinned utensil. Take a copper boiler not tinned, or an earthenware or enamelled casserole. After boiling and draining dust them over ever so finely with castor sugar and salt blended ; stir in just enough of the freshest butter

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.