A Cheap Green Peas Soup

• Pea-shells, 3 quarts
• water, 3 quarts: 20 to 30 minutes.
• Liquor from these

Wash very clean and throw into an equal quantity of boiling water salted as for peas, three quarts of the shells, and in from twenty to thirty minutes, when they will be quite tender, turn the whole into a large strainer, and press the pods strongly with a wooden spoon. Measure the liquor, put