General Chat

AS I remember...didn't they have a green tablet with them as well as the white one?Obviously to make them look more natural.
They were a good staple during the war long before we had frozen peas and couldn't get peas out of season.

I LOVE mushy peas too.
They have to be the proper ones, the dried ones you soak over night with the bicarb tablet.
A good pinch of salt and tea spoon of sugar..............lubbly.
Roast dinner, is not roast dinner without mushy peas!

Just like my Mother used to make! x

Oops, did i just dribble........... :-S

Dear All

Hello

Hope you are okay.

I LOVE mushy peas with fish and chips that has been cooked in lemon juice and malt vinegar.

Absolutely delicious!

Take gentle care
Very best wishes
xx

I love faggotts too. We get a similar meatball type thing here in Spain, but soaked in tomato ,onion & garlic sauce. Ugh!!
Give me mushy peas & gravy any day.

Wisechild, you beat me to it, I was going to say that my Derby parents were eating and loving mushy peas in the '40's and '50's. A love that I have inherited!! We used to have the boxes of dried peas with a white tablet.

I remember Mushy peas pre 1975 up Sheffield way.

reminds me of a time at a swanky hotel by Gatwick when OH and I (being posh) had lincolnshire sausages, crushed potatoe and shallot gravy. They charged a fortune for it !

I was born and brought up in SE Wales. Every Saturday night my mother would soak the peas with the white tablet that came in the box.

Our butcher made his own faggots, they were the best in the town, so most Thursdays was faggots and peas day, of course the peas were always mushy and were soaked on Wednesday night ready to have with the faggots on Thursday.


I now live between Derby and Nottingham, so have got used to having mushy peas with mint sauce, Oh lovely.


Ann, I've had pureed peas ( mushy) in Betty's in Ilkley , W Yorkshire.


Sallie.x

I can remember them being on the menu at dart matches with mint sauce and often on 5th Nov......pees I mean......))!.

oh Frank,,,,, :-D :-D :-D. ;-)

During the 60's up here in Scotland we used to get a tub of peas 'n vinegar from the chip shop............ "common marrowfat thingys" I think but they were disgustingly delicious :-P :-D

Still got them in the 80's when my kids came out of the swimming baths......... not a good idea to eat them before you go swimming. :-S ;-)

oh you heatherns,,,,,,,,

dontchaknow all good chefers ** puree fresh *garden* peas** and la de dah diners eat it.


not common marrowfat thingys,,,,,,,,which are mushy peas,,,,,,disgusting objects.......yuk......

wisechild Your makeing my mouth water now,havent seen a faggott since mooving up the north east.

You´re right.
I´ve been fed them since the early 50s at least.
I´m from the Midlands too, but the delicacy here was faggotts & mushy peas.

Hot pease-pudding and a pork saveloy dip Vera?.. loved them :-)

Ham and pease puddin' in a stotty cyek.....magic :-D

Didn't have mushy peas with our fish & chips in the NE....mostly with pie

Mau

Mushy peas were on the go long befor 1975, wehad them down in the midlands befor 1962 when I joind up.Had them down in Aldershot in themess. grizwald

Chris so they have only been around since the 70's. Thats why I've never had them. Was living in the South by then. Not sure the Cockney's have them with their pie and mash either.

I do remember my mother soaking the peas on a Saturday night. I think they were called split peas or was that lentils for the ham and pea soup.. They do sound nice those mushy peas. I think I'll try them although I don't think you can beat the 'ones that go pop'.

I do remember peas pudding in baps I think with hot pork from a shop. It was a Saturday lunchtime delicacy. Happy memories. Wouldn't touch a little pggy niow.

Vera

Chris.
Think the white tablet was bicarbonate of soda which came in the box with the peas.
I had steak & kidney pie with chips & mushy peas on Friday. Had a friend staying & I was gagging for some "English" food althogh I can get tinned mushy peas in summer when the tourists are here.
Have to say, that lunch was nectar. No accounting for taste!!.

Merlin I have never ever eaten a dried pea since I left my parents home. I loathed them. They were left to soak with a white tablet in them - what that was I simply do not know.

I,m surprised they did,nt describe it a "Pea Jus" meybe just PEE,would suffice,But those that used to be soaked overnight used to be called "Farters" green or grey. :-S :-D.**M**.

i dont mind the tinned type, but they are so different to the soaking ones, or frozen ones, lol,

i love peas pudding on a ham sarnie :-D

We too love mushy peas. you can buy them in tins too if you want to know what they are like. Not the same as peas pudding or marrowfat peas. And definitely not pureed peas. Although I have had pureed mushy peas over here somewhere, can't remember where at the moment.