Melba's pea soup

Auntie Melba Hofmeyer

Auntie Melba was one of Lindstrom sisters (my Nanna's sister).  All of the Lindstrom girls where beautiful.  She was married to Don Hofmeyer. 

This is her pea soup recipe she gave to me when I was collecting recipes from the family in 1995.


Ingredients

Can use a ham, shank or bacon bone.  For a shank boil the meat first the day before then take off the fat.  With bacon bones you cook them that day.

250 grams green split peas.  Soak peas in hot water with a bit of carb soda overnight.  Cook separately the next day.  Tip out the water from soaking overnight, and put the peas in a saucepan of hot water and bring to the boil and keep an eye on them.  Keep simmering to nothing. 

Add onion, carrot or soup vegetables, parsnip, turnip, celery. swede (turnip is white and swede is yellow).  Chop up the vegetables. 

Add macrone or any type of pasta.

Add simmered down peas to the vegetables and meat.

Salt/pepper when the soup is cooked. 

Put in cubes of bacon/chicken powdered stock.