Common Peas Soup

• Peas, 1 quart: soaked 1 night boiled in 2 quarts or rather more of water, 2 to 2½ hours.

Wash well a quart of good split peas, and float off such as remain on the surface or the water; soak them for one night, and boil them with a bit of soda the size of a filbert in just sufficient water to allow them to break to a mash. Put them into from three to