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Split Pea Soup

From Original recipes of good things to eat, 1919.

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Ingredients

4 servings

Method

  1. Melt the butter in a pot.

  2. Add the minced onion and spices, and stir in the hot butter for three minutes.

  3. Add the peas and water, cover, and boil for one hour or until the peas are tender enough to pass through a sieve.

  4. Add the milk, bring everything to a boil, and serve hot.

Original recipe, verbatim

Split Pea Soup

One cup dried split peas, 4 cups water, 1 cup milk, 1 onion,
2 tablespoons butter, 1 teaspoon salt, ^ teaspoon ground
mixed spices, % teaspoon curry powder. Melt butter in a
pot, add onion, minced fine, and spices; stir in hot butter for
three minutes. Now add peas and water and boil one hour in
a covered pot or until peas will pass through a sieve. Add
milk. Bring all to a boil and serve hot. Mrs. Fox.

Transcribed as printed in Original recipes of good things to eat, 1919. Spelling and punctuation are left as in the source scan.

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