Split Pea Soup

Ingredients

• one cup split peas
• one and one half lbs. lean neck of beef
• two thin slices of salt pork
• three quarts cold water
• one tablespoon of flour
• one-half cup of creamy milk

Method

1. 1

   Wash and soak peas for an hour, cut meat into small pieces.

2. 2

   Cook all together for three hours, adding boiling water if needed.

3. 3

   Thicken with flour mixed in creamy milk, strain, and serve with toast cubes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Choice recipes (1900), page 3. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SPLIT PEA SOUP— Mrs. R. H. Thomson One cup split peas, one and one half lbs. lean neck of beef f no bone), two thin slices of salt pork, three quarts cold water. Wash and soak peas for an hour, cut meat in small pieces. Put all together in soup kettle and cook for three hours, you may have to add some boiling water at the last. When done thicken with one tablespoon of flour rubbed smooth in one-half cup of creamy milk

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