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Mrs. Ida Burnham's Split Pea Soup (1924) Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 cup dried split peas, picked over and soaked overnight
2 1/2 quarts cold water
1 pint milk
1/2 onion
3 Tbsp butter
2 Tbsp flour
1 1/2 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper
4 slices bacon cut in small pieces
Directions:
Directions:
"Drain peas and add cold water, bacon, onion. Simmer several hours or until soft enough to rub through sieve. Add butter and flour cooked together, salt and pepper. Dilute with milk, adding more if necessary. Liquor in which ham has been boiled can be used for this soup. No more salt is then necessary."
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Personal Notes:
From "The home-maker's cookbook, containing true and tried recipes".
Tewksbury (MA) Congregational Church Women's Missionary Society, 1924

 

 

 

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