Cream - Of - Pea Soup Recipe

Instructions

1. Press half a cup of peas and the liquid in which they were cooked through the sieve.
2. Melt a tablespoon of butter; add a tablespoon of flour and one-fourth a teaspoon, each, of salt and black pepper and cook until frothy in the butter; add one cup of milk and cook, stirring constantly, until smooth and boiling; add the pea puree and stir until smoothly blended and again boiling.
3. If too thick add a little hot milk or broth with additional salt and pepper and serve at once.
4. If canned peas be used, add to them half a teaspoon of sugar.
5. Canned or fresh peas may be substituted for the corn in the "Cream-of-Corn Soup." These soups provide a nutritious luncheon.