This section is from the "The National Cook Book" book, by Marion Harland And Christine Terhune Herrick. Also available from Amazon: National Cook Book
Cut slices of stale bread into small squares, and fry to a light brown in good dripping or butter. Shake off every drop of fat through a colander, spread upon tissue-paper laid over a hot plate, leaving them thus for five minutes. Put them into the tureen and pour in a quart of boiling consomme.
Boil the pease until done, but not broken, in salted water. Drain perfectly dry, put into the tureen, and add the boiling soup. Allow a cup of pease to a quart of soup.
Cut into inch lengths crisp white celery, and cook tender in boiling salted water. Drain well, put into the tureen, and add a quart of boiling clear stock.
 
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