This section is from the book "Pan-Pacific Cook Book", by L. L. McLaren. Also available from Amazon: Pan-Pacific Cook Book.
Chop a large onion fine and fry with two slices of bacon diced, in a tablespoon of butter. When tender add a pint of young green peas, cover with soup stock and simmer for a quarter of an hour; then add a crisp lettuce, cut in quarters, salt and pepper. Cover and cook until all are tender.
Boil a pint of tender young green peas in plenty of rapidly boiling unsalted water for about fifteen minutes. Drain and turn into a saucepan with a tablespoon of melted butter, half a teaspoon each of salt and sugar and a few sprigs of fresh mint. Cover and simmer very slowly for five minutes, remove the mint and serve.
 
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