This section is from the book "The Table: How To Buy Food, How to Cook It, and How to Serve It", by Alessandro Filippini. Also available from Amazon: The Table: How To Buy Food, How To Cook It And How To Serve It.
Soak one pint of dried peas for four hours; then cover them with three pints of white broth (No. 99), or water. Put them in a saucepan, adding a bouquet (No. 254), a good-sized piece of salt pork (about two ounces), one carrot, one onion, three cloves, and twelve whole peppers. Cook for forty-five minutes; then rub through a sieve, add two ounces of good butter, and half a cupful of cream, and serve with sippets of fried bread. Should water be used instead of broth, taste before serving to see if sufficiently seasoned.
 
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