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Split Pea Soup

Ingredients

• 1 cup dried split peas
• 2 1/2 quarts cold water
• 1 pint milk
• 1/2 onion
• 3 tablespoons butter
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 1/8 teaspoon pepper

Instructions

Pick over peas and soak several hours, drain, add cold water and onion. Simmer three or four hours, or until soft; rub through a sieve. Add butter and flour cooked together, salt, and pepper. Dilute with milk, adding more if necessary. The water in which a ham has been cooked may be used; in such case omit salt.

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Source

The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (1896)

Categories

Pea Soup.