Split Pea Soup Recipe 2

Ingredients for Split Pea Soup Recipe

• 1 cup split peas
• ¼ cup peanut butter
• 1 potato about the size of a butternut
• 1 onion about the size of a walnut
• 1½ teaspoons salt

Instructions

1. Wash the peas and soak them overnight.
2. In the morning, put them to cook in cold water with the peanut butter, the onion, and the potato, which has been scrubbed and sliced without peeling.
3. Cook slowly four or five hours till the peas are thoroughly softened.
4. The creamy, rich consistency of this soup is obtained by long cooking.
5. If the peas or beans or lentils are not sufficiently cooked, they will be mealy and will settle to the bottom of the soup.
6. Rub the whole through a colander.
7. Add salt, and enough water to make of the proper consistency, and reheat.
8. This should make about one quart of soup.
9. The peanut butter, potato, and onion may be omitted, and the soup seasoned with cream or milk or with one-eighth to one-fourth cup of oil or butter.
10. The peas can be cooked in a double boiler almost as quickly as if cooked directly over the stove, and there will be no danger of scorching them.
11. Bean soup can be made by the same recipe, using any kind of dried beans in place of the peas.

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