A French Mode Of Cooking Green Peas Recipe

Instructions

1. Melt one ounce of fresh butter in a saucepan.
2. When it is dissolved without being the least colored, throw in a quart of peas.
3. Shake them over the fire for a minute or two, then pour over them as much boiling water or weak stock as will barely cover them; add half a teaspoon of salt, half a teaspoon of pepper, the heart of a lettuce finely shred, 3 young onions, and a small sprig of parsley.
4. Simmer gently until the peas are tender.
5. Take the saucepan from the fire for a minute, and in order to thicken the sauce stir in the well-beaten yolks of 3 eggs.
6. The peas must not boil up after the eggs are added.
7. Serve the peas on a hot dish with the sauce poured over them.
8. Time, half an hour.
9. Sufficient for four or five persons.