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Boiled Bacon and Peas Pudding

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In Britain this was a combination no less common than roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. A hoc of Bacon so salty that it had to be soaked and drained at least twice before boiling. Several hours later the tough bacon would be tender enough to eat. Wrapped in a cloth and boiled to mush along with it was a few handfuls of yellow split peas.. Boiled bacon and peas pudding. My mother loved it!
 
My mum still makes similar soup to this - lentils & bacon soup she called it.

She'd soak the bacon hock over night to get salt out of it.

Boil hock for what seems forever - leave stock/brine to go cold & sets like a jelly so she can take fat off the top.

Then she'd take meat off hock use the best bits for sandwiches or a meal then all the smaller stuff she'd use in soup with loads of lentils (I think they are like yellow peas?) But always tastes lovely and especially good on a cold winters day!!

Some of the old dishes are always the best ?
 
boiled bacon and peas

hi beryl
you are excactly right on your cooking methords
and i just want to say that it is an old tradional meal
with the irish commutity,especialy on st patricks day
boiled bacon [hock ] cabbage and peas
still goes on regular with in the poor irish commututity
and the very old tradition with boiled bacon
is called coddle with sausages and alsorts of veg thrown in
still beryl it does,nt beat any of your old reciepes
i always look foreward to reading your cookery reciepe,s
which i haven,t seen for ages ,
have a nice day cheff , best wishes astonian ;;;;;
 
Anyone see this yesterday.

More than half of today's teenagers have never sampled Melton Mowbray Pork Pie.
Same proportion have yet to taste Steak & Kidney, Devon Clotted Cream, Faggots, Haggis & Caerphilly Cheese are also a mystery to them.:|

The report says traditional foods which are most in danger are

Haggis, Faggots, Col-cannon ( Mash & Cabbage I know as Fry up) Smoked Haddock.???

From the Daily Mail Thursday
 
Astonian - I was brought up in a generation when the man was the breadwinner and the woman stayed at home. My father was a silver spinner who worked in the Jewellery Quarter and on short time. Money was needed to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Only one room in the house was heated and the toilet, typical of many houses at that time, lurked in the dark and cold wilderness of the back garden. In short, life was hard and every chunk of coal on the open fire was a luxury.

When you are poor and struggling, even the cheapest of meals can seem like a King's banquet. My mother had the fancy for boiled bacon and soaked the hoc in a large pot overnight. It had to be drained and soaked again in the morning so that by mid afternoon it would be ready to boil. Pressure cookers were still years away!

However this story is all told in retrospect – I never have felt poor for I was very much loved -Therefore undeniably rich!
 
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boiled bacon and pudding

hi there mate
just read your line and i spotted an old recipe
the mash and cabbage
we called it bubble and sqeak , its lovely
if the dutchess goes out
i still knock it up yumi ,yumi,
 
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