- Take your split pea soup recipe and use whole dried peas instead. Must soak the night before. Have much more body than the split ones.
- Don't try to remove the translucent pea "husks". Just stir them in and they disappear.
- When serving the soup put some (cooking) wine and/or Worcestershire or A1 steak sauce at the bottom of the bowl and stir it in.
- For the adventurous a bit of minced garlic in bottom of their bowl
- Add a little cayenne to the recipe. (Not the individual soup bowl)
- Be sure to add enough salt. Peas can absorb a lot. Bland pea soup is terrible
Pease Porridge Hot 
Pease porridge hot!
Pease porridge cold!
Pease porridge in the pot
Nine days old.
Some like it hot,
Some like it cold,
Some like it in the pot
Nine days old!