Peas For Large Family - cooking recipe

Ingredients

garden fresh peas (crowder, black-eyed, speckled, purple hull, butter beans or butter peas)
salt pork (5 x 2-inch, fatback or streak of lean
2 tsp. sugar

Preparation

Shell peas until you get 2 quarts.
Pick out all the bad peas and discard.
Wash peas through 3 or 4 pans of water.
Put in a 4-quart pot or dishpan.
Add water 2 inches above peas.
Slice salt pork crossways down to rind in 1/4-inch slices.
Put in pot of peas; cover and boil until peas are tender.
Add sugar to peas while boiling.
You may have to add more water before peas are done.