Recipe - Pea And Ham Soup

1 pound Split peas
1 Onion; finely chopped
3 Sprigs thyme
12 ounce Ham
5 pt Ham stock
1 Clove garlic
2 ounce Butter
1 Leek; finely chopped
2 Sticks celery
2 Bay leaves

Soak the peas overnight, then drain though a sieve. Melt the butter in a
pot and add the onion, garlic, celery, leeks then toss to combine. Add the
thyme and bay leaves and sweat everything off. Add some ham fat from the
bottom of the ham and stir in with the other ingredients. Add the soaked
split peas and stock, reduce the heat and simmer for 45 minutes.

Take the soup off the heat and blitz in a blender, sieve the soup into
another saucepan and return to the heat to warm. Add the ham bits and
serve.

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