Peas Recipe (Sweet Juiced)

If the pods are clean and fresh, cook part of them with water to cover half an hour. Strain the water through a cheesecloth, reheat and use as the liquid in which to cook the peas. Freshly gathered tender peas should cook in twenty minutes. In cooking peas use no more liquid than it takes to cover them, season with salt, pepper and butter. Cream, broth or meat extract may be added. A little sugar is sometimes an improvement. Cubes of carrots, cooked separately, also are added to a dish of peas. This is a German custom. Peas alone or combined with carrots, turnips and potatoes are also served in cream sauce or in a curry sauce.

Pea Timbales Recipe

Mix one cup of pea pulp with two beaten eggs, a few drops of onion juice, two tablespoonfuls of thick cream, one tablespoonful of melted butter, two thirds teaspoonful of salt, one eighth teaspoonful of black pepper, and a few grains of cayenne. Turn into buttered moulds and bake in a pan of hot water until firm. Serve with one cup of white sauce, to which has been added one third cup of cooked and drained peas.

These may be made of fresh, dried or canned peas. In seasoning a teaspoonful of fine-chopped mint leaves is approved by many. For variety or the sake of color add to the sauce, with the peas, cubes or figures cut from carrot, cooked tender,