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Pea Flour Soup

4 servings

Ingredients

• 125 g pea flour (soup flour)
• 500 g meat, Mettwurst sausage, or lean bacon
• soup vegetables (a little)
• onions, browned in butter (a few)
• water (cold, for mixing) (a little)
• bread slices, toasted (as needed)
• chives (as desired)

Instructions

1. About 125 g of pea flour is enough for 4 people.
2. If you want to cook meat, a smoked Mettwurst sausage or lean bacon, add about 500 g of it with soup vegetables, skim, and cook until tender; cook a few butter-browned onions with it.
3. Remove the meat and keep warm.
4. Mix the pea flour with cold water until lump-free, add to the meat broth, and cook for 15-20 minutes.
5. Serve over toasted bread slices, with chives if desired.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.