Pea and Tomato Soup.
1 lb. of lean ham; 2 lbs. of lean beef; 2 lbs. of lean veal; 2 onions; bunch of sweet herbs; 12 tomatoes; 1 quart of green peas; 5 quarts of water; pepper and salt to taste; corn-starch; sugar.
Cook the meat, cut into strips, and the herbs and onions in the cold water four hours. Strain; put the meat and half the stock on the ice—after seasoning well—for Sunday. Season the rest, when you have cooled and skimmed it, and put over the fire with the sliced tomatoes and peas. Boil slowly half an hour. Pulp through a colander; stir in a tablespoonful of corn-starch wet with cold water, and a tablespoonful of white sugar. Simmer five minutes, and pour out.