Montebello Kitchens Green Split Pea Soup Mix 14 oz

Enjoy the traditional comforting flavor of our split pea soup. Add bacon, onions, and cream to our unique spice blend and you have a satifying meal in itself. pea soup history from England and the United Kingdom. A well-known nursery rhyme which first appeared in 1765 speaks of Pease porridge hot, Pease porridge cold, Pease porridge in the pot Nine days old. "Pease" is the original form of the word "pea." According to the Baring-Goulds, pease porridge was "a thin pudding," which presumably would be the same thing as a thick soup. In 19th century English literature, pea soup is referred to as a simple food. In a Thackeray novel, when a character asks his wife "Why don't you ask some of our old friends? Old Mrs. Portman has asked us twenty times, I am sure, within the last two years," she replies, with "a look of ineffable scorn," that when "the last time we went there, there was pea-soup for dinner!" In Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Tess remarks that "we have several proofs that we are d'Urbervilles... we have a very old silver spoon, round in the bowl like a little ladle, and marked with the same castle. But it is so worn that mother uses it to stir the pea-soup." source: http://en.wikipedia.org ALL NATURAL INGREDIENTS Makes enough for 6 to 8 people with 10 ounce servings. All you need is a little bacon, diced potatoes, an onion, some cream,and diced celery. Warnings

"manufactured on shared equipment in a facility that processes peanuts, almonds, walnuts, milk, wheat flour, eggs, and soybeans"

Ingredients

green split peas,seasoning spices (includes peppercorns)