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Victorian Cookery: Recipes and History

Victorian Cookery: Recipes and History
by Maggie Black
  With more than 30 recipes covering the whole range of Victorian society, this book gives a fascinating insight into the way food was prepared and enjoyed by our ancestors.
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Victorian Pea Soup Recipes

From 'The Dictionary of Daily Wants' - 1859

PEAS SOUP.- There are various ways of making this well-known and agreeable soup. The following are among the most approved recipes:

1. Save the liquor of boiled pork or beef: if too salt, dilute it with water, or use fresh water only, adding the bones of roast beef, a ham or gammon bone, or an anchovy or two. Simmer these with some good whole or split peas; the smaller the quantity of water at first the better. Continue to simmer till the peas will pulp through a cullender; then set on the pulp to stew - with more of the liquor in which the peas were boiled - two carrots, a turnip, a leek, and a stick of chopped celery, till all are quite tender. When ready, put into a tureen .some fried bread cut into dice, dried mint rubbed fine, pepper and salt, and pour in the soup.

2. Wash a quart of split peas, and put them into a cloth; when boiled tender, rub them through a sieve into six quarts of boiling stock; take six onions, two bay-leaves, an ounce of allspice, three sprays of thyme, or three of marjoram; put them all into a stewpan with an ounce of butter, until they are of a brown colour; put them into the stock, and boil for ten minutes; then strain it through a sieve, and let it boil ten minutes more; serve with mint, and with toast cut into squares.

3. Put into a pan six pounds of pork, well soaked and cut into eight pieces, pour six quarts of water over it; add a pound of split peas, a teaspoonful of sugar, half a teaspoonful of pepper, and four ounces of fresh vegetables; let these boil gently for two hours, or until the peas are tender. Strain through a sieve and serve.

4. Wash a quart of split peas, which put into a stewpan with half a pound of streaked bacon, two onions sliced, two pounds of veal or beef, cut into small pieces, together with a little parsley, thyme, and bay-leaf; add a gallon of water, with a little salt and sugar, place it upon the fire, and when boiling, stand it at the side until the peas are boiled to a pulp and the water is reduced to one-half; then take out the meat, put it upon a dish, to be eaten with the bacon, keeping it hot in the meantime, rub the soup through a hair sieve, put it into another stewpan, and when boiling, serve.

5. Put a pint of split peas into four quarts of water, with two ounces of butter, three pounds of beef, one pound of crushed bones, and a knuckle of ham, or half a pound of good bacon; add two carrots, three turnips, a head of celery, four onions, and a seasoning of salt and pepper; boil for about three hours; then crush the pulp from the peas, through a sieve, and serve it up, making of the meat a separate dish, if desired.

6. Green peas soup. Pat two quarts of green peas into a stewpan with a quarter of a pound of butter, a quarter of a pound of lean ham cut into small dice, two onions sliced, and a few sprigs of parsley; add a quart of cold water, and rub all well together; then pour off the water, cover the stewpan close, and set it over a brisk fire, stirring the contents of the stewpan round occasionally; when very tender, add two tablespoonfuls of flour, which mix well; in mashing the peas against the sides of the stewpan, add two quarts of stock, a tablespoonful of sugar, and a seasoning of pepper and salt; boil all well together for five minutes, then rub it through a tammy or hair sieve; then put it into another stewpan with a pint of boiling milk; boil for five minutes, skim well, and pour it into a tureen: serve with toasted bread cut into squares.

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