Cabbage Soup

Serves: 12

8 cups water

2 ½ sticks butter

2 onions - sliced

1 cup yellow split peas

1 cup of cabbage - shredded

43½ ounces sauerkraut

½ teaspoon black pepper

Place water and butter in soup pot and bring to a boil. Add onion and yellow split peas, reduce heat and simmer for 1.5 hours. Add fresh cabbage and sauerkraut and season with fresh ground black pepper. Continue to simmer for another 1 - 2 hours.