Swedish Pea Soup

Ingredients

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

Directions

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