To boil GREEN Peas

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
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The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Ingredients (4)
For boiling peas
Instructions (7)
  1. Shell your peas just before you want them.
  2. Put them in boiling water, with a little salt, and a lump of loaf sugar.
  3. When they begin to dent in the middle they are enough.
  4. Strain them in a sieve.
  5. Put a good lump of butter into a mug.
  6. Give your pease a shake.
  7. Put them [into the mug with butter].
Original Text
To boil GREEN Peas. SHELL your peas just before you want them, put them in boiling water, with a lit- tle salt, and a lump of loaf sugar, when they begin to dent in the middle they are enough, strain them in a sieve, put a good lump of but- ter into a mug, give your pease a shake, put them
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