Split Pea Soup

Ingredients 1 pound meat and bones 6 cups water 1 onion, chopped 2 carrots, sliced 2 stalkscelery, cut in pieces 2 teaspoons salt 1/2 teaspoon pepper 1 cup dried split peas, yellow or green small bay leaf

Instructions Rinse peas. Put meat and bones in large pot with water and bring to a boil. Skim. Add all other ingredients and cook slowly in covered pot. Stir occasionally from the bottom. Cook for about 2 hours.

Description

For those of us that love pea soup, this is a top choice.

Servings

6

Notes I often substitute chicken for the meat as we limit our consumption of beef.

In either case, cut meat or chicken into pieces and return to soup.

Source Freda Opper - friend of Dorothy Sherman