Green Pea Soup
Origin: Tidewater Virginia
Source: Mary Randolph, 1824
Ingredients
- 1 handful fresh mint
- 1 pint young peas
- 1/4 pound butter
- 2 spoonsful flour
Instructions
- Make it exactly as you do the dried pea soup, with these changes.
- In place of the celery seed, put in a handful of mint chopped small and a pint of young peas; the peas must be boiled in the soup till tender.
- Thicken it with a quarter of a pound of butter and two spoonsful of flour.