Rich Peas Soup

Name: Rich Peas Soup
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: Good brown gravy soup, 5 quarts: 30 minutes.; Split peas, 1 quart: soaked one night.; Onions and carrots browned in butter, 3 of each; Cayenne and salt as needed.; celery, sliced, 1 large or 2 small heads: 20 minutes.; turnips, 2: 2½ to 3½ hours.

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Modern Cookery for Private Families

By Eliza Acton

Published 1845

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Ingredients

Split peas, 1 quart: soaked one night.
Good brown gravy soup, 5 quarts: 30 minutes.

Europe
United Kingdom
Soup
Gluten-free

Method

Soak a quart of fine yellow split peas for a night, drain them well, and put them into a large soup-pot with five quarts of good brown gravy stock; and when they nave boiled gently for half an hour