Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1911 — MAKES DELICIOUS PEA SOUP [ARTICLE]

MAKES DELICIOUS PEA SOUP

Simple Recipe Produces Concoction That Tastes Muoh Like Chicken Soup, Soak over night one and a half '"Slips split peas; four hours before dinner put on to cook In water (say about three pints), with quarter of a teaspoon of cooking soda. Cut up a small carrot Into small dice shape, also onion and celery, add to soup about one hour before serving; also about 15 minutes before dinner add sliced potatoes. You can add one or more of the vegetables mentioned about, the more the better. Also you can put in the bone of any rpast with little meat. Bone from roast pork is fine. Add more water as needed, to make the right thickness. If for a large family put in two cups of split peas. Last of all, cut up fat bacon into dice, fry brown, add soup and serve. Also make soup from the last of roast pork, just the same as pea soup, leav Ing out the peas. It tastes like chicken soup.