Pea soup

Pea soup with smoked pork loin just like Mother's kitchen

The pea soup from Manufaktur U is a ready-to-serve stew made from green peas, root vegetables, and a slow-cooked beef stock, refined with smoked pork loin (Kasseler) and Viennese sausages. Not a mass-produced convenience food, but a handcrafted canned soup from a small kitchen that still cooks with a passion for quality soup.

Pea soup at Manufaktur U stands for a classic based on an old family recipe: soaked green peas, potatoes, onions, leeks, and carrots are simmered together in a beef bone and vegetable stock, which is prepared in the homemade style by a small producer selected by Kerstin and Stephan Uhlenbusch for the Manufaktur U brand. A splash of white wine and fine spices round off the 400g can, while diced smoked pork loin and Viennese sausages provide a hearty touch.

Hearty, creamy, and with a distinct meaty flavor

When heated in a pot, a rich green color unfolds along with a powerful aroma of beef stock, while the falling-apart peas provide a creamy texture.

The peas are cooked long and slow until they nearly fall apart on their own, giving the soup its creamy consistency, while the potatoes, carrots, and leeks retain a noticeable bite. The smoked pork loin and Viennese sausages bring smoke and salt to the pot—hearty, savory, down-to-earth—a soup that reminds you of gray November days when only a warm bowl will truly help.

Served hot at around 70 degrees Celsius, it reveals its full aroma with a rounded, slightly rustic aftertaste that begs for the next spoonful. A dash of freshly ground pepper on top, and the pea soup tastes as if it had been simmering on the stove for hours.

From the pot straight to the table

The contents of the can are simply poured into a pot and heated slowly over about 5 minutes, stirring until the soup bubbles gently and the scent of beef stock fills your kitchen.

A piece of dark country bread and some coarse mustard go well with it, as does a dollop of sour cream to balance the sweetness of the peas. The 400 g serving makes for a hearty portion, or two smaller ones on a hungry evening.

Those who want to discover the entire range will also find the spicy potato soup with bacon and the mild tomato soup with basil dumplings among the soups from Manufaktur U, both prepared according to the same principle. Once opened, the contents will keep in the refrigerator for two days; unopened, the can remains shelf-stable for up to 2 years without the need for a refrigerator—good to know for when your pantry stays unexpectedly full for a while.

A producer that still cooks instead of manufactures

Behind this pea soup is no large-scale canteen, and certainly not our own: it is cooked for us by a small producer selected by Kerstin and Stephan Uhlenbusch because they cook with lived culinary passion and a love for good soup, rather than producing industrially.

The standard of Manufaktur U is clear: soup should taste homemade, not like a convenience meal from a massive industrial vat. Ingredients like carrots, potatoes, and leeks are cleaned, cut, and weighed by hand and filled in small batches—the production is an EC-certified artisan manufacturing process. The soup is naturally so flavorful that it requires no flavor enhancers at all.

The Manufaktur U assortment in our shop now comprises ten soups, from this pea soup to the game cream soup with venison dumplings—every single one is still cooked, not industrially produced. You can taste this difference from the very first spoonful. This is what a soup that deserves its name tastes like.