Soup for Hot Days

Soup for Hot Days

(or any day)

Grandpa always said a bowl of hot soup on a hot day will help cool you down.

Where the logic came from I don't know. 

We are about to fall under heat advisory so I thought I'd post a few of Gramma's soup recipes here check back for more later.

Old -Fashioned Split Pea Soup

(this is the sort of recipe my mom would make during the last weeks of September ...you could smell it cooking as you came up the driveway)

Old -Fashioned Split Pea Soup

1 1/2 cups quick cooking split green peas

2 1/2 pounds fully cooked ham shank

2/3 cup coarsely chopped Onion

1/4 cup cut up carrot

1/2 up coarsely chopped celery

2 parsley springs

1 clove garlic

1 bay leaf 

1/2 tsp sugar

1/8 tsp dried thyme leaves

1/8 tsp pepper

1 can(13 3/4 oz ) chicken broth

1.   IN 3 5 quart kettle combine peas and 1 quart water; bring to boiling.  Reduce heat; simmer, covered 45 minutes.  Add more water if necessary
2. Add ham shank and rest of ingredients; simmer covered, 1.5 hours.
3. Remove ham shank from soup; cool; cut ham from bone; dice.
4. Press vegetables and liquid through coarse sieve
5. Return to kettle.  Add ham; reheat slowly uncovered, until thoroughly hot-- 15 minutes

Makes 8 servings