Green Pea Soup, without Meat, for Lent

Ingredients

• Two pints of green peas
• Two quarts of water
• Three onions
• Two heads of celery
• One carrot
• One turnip
• Salt
• One half tablespoon of butter

Directions

1. Boil the peas in two quarts of water until peas are very soft.
2. Chop the onions, celery, carrot, and turnip into small pieces.
3. When peas are very soft, add onions, celery, carrot, turnip, salt to taste, and butter to the peas and boil for two hours.
4. The peas may be boiled the day before, if desired. Dried peas may be substituted for green peas.

Source — La Cuisine Creole
Prepared by Austin Shelton
Louisiana Anthology
June 10, 2021