Foodie Friday- Split Pea Soup

Split Pea Soup

Ingredients:

• 2 cups green split peas
• 1 ham bone
• 2 quarts cold water
• cayenne pepper 
• 2 diced carrots
• 1 onion diced
• 1 diced celery stalk

Instructions:

1. Soak peas overnight. Put ham bone in a large kettle, tightly closed, and simmer 1 1/2 hours in cold water. Do not boil. Add peas, carrot, onion, celery and seasonings and continue to simmer 1 more hour. Remove the ham bone. Rub soup through a sieve, return to the pot. Season with salt to taste. 
2. You may also add potatoes and green peppers. 

Recipe from "Waste Not, Want Not, A Booke of Cookery". 

Kelsey Conway

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