Petits Pois à la Française (Green Peas, French Fashion)

Ingredients

• 1 litre freshly shelled petits pois
• a bouquet of 1 heart of lettuce
• 12 small onions
• 125 grammes butter
• 10 grammes salt
• 20 grammes lump sugar
• 3 spoonfuls water
• butter

Instructions

1. Put into a saucepan a little larger than needed to hold them: the litre of freshly shelled peas, the bouquet of lettuce heart, parsley and chervil, the 12 small onions, 125 grammes of butter, 10 grammes of salt and 20 grammes of lump sugar.
2. Work the whole together until it forms a compact mass and keep it in a cool place until the cooking is started.
3. When putting the peas to cook, add 3 spoonfuls of water and cook them gently with the saucepan well covered.
4. At the moment of serving, remove the bouquet and make the liaison with butter off the fire.
5. Cut the lettuce heart into four and dress it on the peas.