[Sca-cooks] Period recipe for Pea Soup?

[edoard at medievalcookery.com]

> -------- Original Message --------
> From: Kean Gryffyth <kad.dsl at verizon.net>
> 
> Greetings all,
>      We're looking for a period recipe for Pea Soup. The little data 
> we've been able to find indicates that while everybody seems to have had 
> one. but because it was low-end peasant food, no-one wrote the recipe 
> down. Any leads, clues or even recipes! would be greatly appreciated!


Your statement surprises me, because I've seen an awful lot of pea soup
recipes in medieval cookbooks.

Here are some examples I found with a quick search:  [
http://www.medievalcookery.com/cgi/search.pl?term=peas&file=all ]

A Book of Cookrye (England, 1591)
To boyle yong Peason or Beanes
http://www.medievalcookery.com/cgi/display.pl?aboc:141

Du fait de cuisine (France, 1420)
Purée of Peas
http://www.medievalcookery.com/cgi/display.pl?duf:21

Du fait de cuisine (France, 1420)
A Gratunée
http://www.medievalcookery.com/cgi/display.pl?duf:62

Forme of Cury (England, 1390)
Perrey Of Pesoun
http://www.medievalcookery.com/cgi/display.pl?foc:69

Le Menagier de Paris (France, 1393)
When you have NEW PEAS
http://www.medievalcookery.com/cgi/display.pl?lmdp:191

Le Menagier de Paris (France, 1393)
CRETONNEE of New Peas or new beans
http://www.medievalcookery.com/cgi/display.pl?lmdp:269

A Noble Boke off Cookry (England, 1468)
Yonge pessene
http://www.medievalcookery.com/cgi/display.pl?nob:15

A Noble Boke off Cookry (England, 1468)
To mak yonge pessen ryalle
http://www.medievalcookery.com/cgi/display.pl?nob:16

Le Recueil de Riom (France, 15th century)
English puree
http://www.medievalcookery.com/cgi/display.pl?rdr:25

Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books (England, 1430)
Cxlv - Blaunche Perreye
http://www.medievalcookery.com/cgi/display.pl?tfccb:145

Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books (England, 1430)
Peys de almayne
http://www.medievalcookery.com/cgi/display.pl?tfccb:477

Le Viandier de Taillevent (France, ca. 1380)
Cretone of new peas
http://www.medievalcookery.com/cgi/display.pl?via:10


- Doc