Swedish Pea Soup

Ingredients

 * 2 	cups dried yellow peas
 * 1 1/2 	lbs unsmoked salted bacon
 * 1 	large onion, coarsely chopped
 * salt
 * pepper
 * 1 	bay leaf
 * thyme
 * marjoram
 * mustard

Directions

 * Soak the peas in 2 quarts of water overnight.
 * Bring the peas to a boil in the water they soaked in.
 * Add onion, meat and spices except mustard.
 * Simmer about 1 hour.
 * Take up the meat and cut into pieces.
 * Put them back in the soup.
 * Add more spices.
 * Serve hot with mustard.