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Split Pea Soup

From The Rural cook book, 1907

Serves 8

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

  • a pint of split peas
  • three quarts of cold water
  • half a pound of lean salt pork
  • a teaspoonful of salt
  • a little pepper

Method

  1. Wash the split peas and cover with tepid water, adding a pinch of soda, and let remain overnight.

  2. In the morning, put them in a kettle with cold water and salt pork.

  3. Cook slowly for three hours, stirring occasionally until the peas dissolve.

  4. Strain through a colander and serve with toasted bread.

Nutrition per serving

58Calories
4 gProtein
10 gCarbs
0 gFat

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Rural cook book (1907), page 5. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Split Pea Soup. — Wash a pint of split peas and cover with tepid water, adding a pinch of soda, and let remain over night to swell. In the morning put them in a kettle with three quarts of cold water, adding half a pound of lean salt pork cut into slices, also a teaspoonful of salt and a little pepper

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