American Soup Recipe ingredients

To prepare this American Soup Recipe, first cut into small pieces a pound of mutton (a piece from the neck will do); put it in a saucepan with half a pound of split peas that have been soaked in cold water. Add 5 pints of water, bring to a boil, and add 1 chopped onion, half a turnip, half a carrot, and a stalk of celery (all chopped) and a teaspoonful of sugar. Simmer two or three hours. Cut into small pieces 3 or 4 good-sized tomatoes, add them to the soup, and boil thirty minutes longer. Strain through a fine sieve, season with salt, pepper, a very little nutmeg or mace; boil up, and serve with croutons or triangles of crisp toast.