Green Pea Soup

Make it exactly as you do the dried pea soup, only in place of the celery seed, put a handful of mint chopped small, and a pint of young peas, which must be boiled in the soup till tender; thicken it with a quarter of a pound of butter, and two spoonsful of flour.

Original Recipe

Make it exactly as you do the dried pea soup, only in place of the celery seed, put a handful of mint chopped small, and a pint of young peas, which must be boiled in the soup till tender; thicken it with a quarter of a pound of butter, and two spoonsful of flour.

Ingredients

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  • ingredients from dried pea soup (same as dr)
  • mint (handful)
  • 1 pint young peas
  • 0.25 pound butter
  • 2 spoonful flour

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Instructions

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    Make it exactly as you do the dried pea soup, only in place of the celery seed, put a handful of mint chopped small, and a pint of young peas, which must be boiled in the soup till tender; thicken it with a quarter of a pound of butter, and two spoonsful of flour.

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Recipe by mary-randolph from The Virginia Housewife; Or, Methodical Cook (1824)