Soup without Meat

Ingredients 

• Four or five cucumbers 
• Three cups of lettuce
• Two sprigs of mint
• Parsely
• Pint of young peas
• Pint of old peas
• Quarter pound of butter
• Quarter of water 
• Salt
• Cayenne pepper

Directions 

1. Pare and cut cucumbers in small square pieces
2. Put herbs into a stewpan, with butter. salt, and cayenne pepper
3. Stew gently for an hour 
4. Boil old peas in water
5. When quite soft run them through a sieve
6. Add them together with the water they have been boiled into your herbs
7. Stew them all together for an hour
8. This soup is all the better if it does not stand long before it is served up

Source — Cooking in Old Creole Days

Prepared by Jazmine Wright

Louisiana Anthology

June 5, 2018