Summer Pea Soup

Ingredients

• 1 peck peas
• good stock
• lettuce
• cucumber
• mint
• pepper
• salt
• 3 lumps sugar

Instructions

1. Take a peck of peas and separate the old from the young.
2. Boil the old peas till they are quite tender in good stock, then pass them through a sieve and return them to the stock.
3. Add the young peas, a little chopped lettuce, small pieces of cucumber fried to a light brown, a little bit of mint, pepper, and salt.
4. Two or three lumps of sugar give a fine flavor.