Mollie Stark made a dried pea soup in their Aladdin oven, cooking the peas for some six to eight hours, and adding some milk and seasoning at the end. Beans make excellent soup boiled with a little pork. It is impossible to give a rule for the amount of water or length of time. Water has to be added from time to time, and the beans can simmer on the back of the stove all day. The water can be allowed to boil away until the mass is rather thick, and the milk added just before serving.