Keeping Green Peas
From Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine, 1886
This method preserves peas until Christmas.
Presented as published in 1886. 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 Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine (1886) by William Carew Hazlitt, page 34. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
young peas ; put them in the pot when the water boils ; let them have four or five warms ; then first pour them into a colander, and then spread a cloth on a table, and put them on that, and dry Early Receipts. 109 them well in it : have bottles ready dry’d, and fill them to the necks, and pour over them melted mutton-fat, and cork them down very close, that no air come to them : set them in your cellar, and when you use them, put them into boiling water, with a spoonful of fine sugar, and a good piece of butter
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