1) Wash your peas (lentils or small haricot beans) in three or four waters. Remove all the bad ones.

2) Wash your rice in three or four waters.

3) Put one pint of water in a saucepan, and place it over the fire. When the water is warm put in your peas. When the peas become soft without being broken, add the rest of the ingredients.

4) Let the whole stew for half an hour over a slow fire.