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Potage, Armenonville

Boil a pint of split green peas in boiling water five minutes, drain on a sieve, then replace in saucepan with a sliced carrot, a sliced onion, two sliced leeks, two sliced branches celery, two ounces salt pork cut in small square pieces and two ounces raw lean ham cut same way. Moisten with two and a half quarts water. Season with light teaspoon salt and half teaspoon pepper, then slowly simmer two hours. Strain soup through a sieve into a basin, then through a Chinese strainer into a saucepan and keep hot. Cut a carrot, an onion and two branches celery in exceedingly small square pieces and place in a small saucepan with an ounce butter and one teaspoon sugar, and gently fry fifteen minutes. Pour in a half gill white wine and let reduce until nearly dry, then add to soup. Boil two ounces tapioca pearls in pint boiling water with half teaspoon salt forty minutes, drain on sieve and thoroughly wash in cold water, then add to the soup, mix well, boil for five minutes. Pour into a soup tureen and serve.