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Potage, Suzon

Place a pint dried, split green peas in a saucepan with a quart water and boil for five minutes, drain on a sieve, replace the peas in the pan with a pound ham bones, a sliced carrot, a sliced carrot, a sliced onion, two sliced leeks, a bean crushed garlic, and two parsley roots. Moisten with a pint sweet cider and two and a half heavy quarts water, season with two light teaspoons salt and half teaspoon pepper, lightly mix them, cover the pan and slowly boil for two hours, occasionally stirring at the bottom once in a while. Remove, press the soup through a sieve into a basin, then through a Chinese strainer into a saucepan, set on the fire, pour in one gill cream, one ounce butter, one light teaspoon chopped truffle and two ounces cooked rice. Mix well while cooking for five minutes, pour the soup into a soup tureen and serve with bread croutons separately.