Peas Soup (another way)

Ingredients

• a quart of split peas
• half a dozen of the outer sticks of a head of celery
• two large scraped carrots
• two onions
• two pounds weight of salt pork
• three quarts of water

Method

1. 1

   Soak peas overnight, wash, and place in a large stewpan with celery, carrots, onions, and salt pork.

2. 2

   Boil gently until peas are tender, stirring frequently.

3. 3

   Remove pork, rub soup through a sieve, return to saucepan, and season with pepper and salt.

4. 4

   Add pork cut into pieces, heat, and serve.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 13 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 1137. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Peas Soup (another way). — Cut two ounces of lean ham or bacon into dice, and fry them with a sliced onion in a little dripping until they are lightly browned. Put with them one turnip, two carrots, three or four sticks of celery, and one leek, all cut into small pieces, and stir the whole of the above ingredients over the fire for ten minutes more. Pour over them three q. arts of water, boil, and add a pint of PEA (531) PEC peas ■wliicli have been soaked in cold water all night. Boil gently until the peas are quite Boft, stir frequently to prevent burning, then add a little salt and pepper, a tea-spoonful of moist sugar, and a salt-spoonful of di-icd and powdered mint. Rub the soup through a sieve. If it is not sufficiently thick, stir into it three or four ounces of flour mixed smoothly with a little cold water. Boil half an hour longer, and serve very hot. Time, three hours. Probable cost, 8d. ' Sufficient for six or eight persons. Peas Soup (another way). — Soak a quart of spUt peas aU night. Wash them in two or thi-ee waters, and put them into a large stew- pan with half a dozen of the outer sticks of a head of celery, two large scraped carrots, two onions, two pounds weight of salt pork, and three quarts of water

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