Soup Without Meat

Ingredients:

• Four or five cucumbers, according to size,
• Three cupfuls of lettuce cut in shreds,
• Two sprigs of mint,
• A little parsley,
• Two or three small onions (all shredded),
• One pint of young peas,
• A quarter pound of butter,
• Salt,
• Cayenne pepper
• One pint of old peas 

Directions:

1. Pare and cut the cucumbers into small, square pieces. 
2. Add the lettuce, mint, parsley,onions, and young peas.
3. Put all the herbs in a stewpan with the butter, salt, and cayenne pepper.
4. Stew gently for an hour.
5. Boil the old peas in a full quart of water.
6. Run through a sieve, when quite soft, with a wooden spoon.
7. Add the old peas and the water they were boiled in to the stewed herbs.
8. Stew together for a full half hour. 
9. Serve immediately.

Source — Cooking in Old Creole Days

Published by Marlie Giardina

Louisiana Anthology

June 1, 2018