Dried Pea Soup

Ingredients

• 1 quart split peas or Lima beans
• 3 quarts soft water
• 3 onions, chopped
• pepper
• salt
• 1 large piece butter
• flour
• slices salt pork, nice quality
• 1 large teaspoonful celery seed, pounded
• bread, toasted and cut into dice

Instructions

1. Take one quart of split peas, or Lima beans, which are better.
2. Put them in three quarts of very soft water, with three onions chopped up, pepper and salt.
3. Boil them two hours.
4. Mash them well and pass them through a sieve.
5. Return the liquid into the pot and thicken it with a large piece of butter and flour.
6. Put in some slices of nice salt pork, and a large tea-spoonful of celery seed pounded.
7. Boil it till the pork is done, and serve it up.
8. Have some toasted bread cut into dice and fried in butter, which must be put in the tureen before you pour in the soup.