Pea Soup with Pork

Description

Pea Soup with Pork

Ingredients

• 1 lb (2 c) dried yellow Swedish Peas -=OR=- domestic yellow split Peas
• 5 cup Cold water
• 2 med onions, finely chopped
• 1 med Onion, whole, peeled and studded with 2 cloves
• 1 lb Lean salt Pork, in 1 piece
• 1 tsp Majoram leaf -=OR=-
• 1/4 tsp Marjoam powder
• 1/2 tsp thyme
• salt

Directions

• Wash the dried Peas in cold running water and place them in saucepan.

• Cover with 5 cups cold water and boil over high heat.

• Boil briskly for 2 or 3 minutes and let the Peas soak in the water for an hour.

• Skim off any pea husks that may have risen to the surface, add the finely chopped Onion, the whole Onion, salt Pork, marjoram and thyme

• Boil again.

• Immediately lower heat and simmer with pot partially covered for about 1 1/4 hours

• Remove the whole Onion and the salt Pork from the soup and cut the Pork in slices