Green Pea Soup Recipe
Green Pea Soup Recipe with Green Peas, Stock, Milk, Mint, Butter, Cornflour and Croutons.
INGREDIENTS
2 lb (900g) Green Peas
1 1/2 pints (900ml) Vegetable Stock
1 pint (600ml) Milk
Sprig of Mint
1 oz (25g) Butter
1/2 oz (13g) Cornflour
Croutons
METHOD
Shell the peas. Wash the pods and put them into a saucepan with the stock. Simmer for 20 minutes. Strain and return the stock to the saucepan, add the peas and mint, and simmer until tender. Then rub through a sieve (or blend). Add to this puree the butter, the milk mixed with cornflour and a good seasoning of salt & Pepper. Stir while it boils for 8 minutes. Serve hot with croutons.
Enough for 4 people.
Based on the Green Pea Soup recipe in:
Home Cookery Illustrated
by Anon (Odhams Press, Circa 1955).