Green Pea Soup

Origin: Tidewater Virginia

Source: Mary Randolph, 1824

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Prepare the soup exactly as you would dried pea soup. In place of celery seed, add a handful of mint chopped small and a pint of young peas. Boil the peas in the soup until tender. Thicken the soup with a quarter pound of butter mixed with two spoonsful of flour.

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