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Mushy Peas

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What a lot of sweet tooths are around - Does anyone know how to make mushy peas?
 
:angel: Beryl, here's mine that I got off my Mom on a visit to Brum in 1986 as she made the best mushy peas I ever have had.

Ingredients:
Dried peas (she used Bachelors Bigga Marrowfat Peas).
bicarbonate of soda
water
salt and pepper (at the end)

method:

Place the dried marrowfat peas in a large dish
(they will expand when soaked).
The peas need to be covered with two to three times their volume of boiling water.
Add the steeping tablet that comes with the peas or a couple of teaspoons of bicarbonate of soda.
The peas will not break down unless the bicarb is added.
Cover and leave overnight. The next day drain the peas and put them in a pan with enough fresh water to just cover them.
Bring to the boil and simmer for about 20 minutes.
The peas should break up nicely.
Add a little more water to the mixture to loosen the mushy peas to the consistency you like.
Add salt and pepper only at the end, not before or peas will be smooth.
Mushy peas freeze well. :cool:
 
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Thank you Alf and Chriss - Though I have been back to England - I haven't tasted mushy peas since I first left a good few moons ago- Now I will be able to - just never knew how they were made - thanks again
 
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Mushy Peas yummy with roast beef/pork fish and chips. to die for
 
Does anyone remember the brown peas that we used to have years ago? Don't know if you can still get them? Dad used to cook them exactly the same as mushy peas but with bits of bacon in it. I thought that was quite yummy.
Lynda
 
I Like Mushy Peas The Old Fashion Way
And I Think It,s A Crying Shame That Todays Chippies
Do Not Make Them Anymore , The Way Our Old Ancesters Used To Make Them , In The English Chippies Chip Shops
All Home Made With The Faggotts
You Could Take Your Ale,or Anykind Of Jugs
And Get Them Filled Up Any Night Ofthe Week .
But Todays Chippie,s Are Rubbish .
Oh I Stand Corrected,
There Is One Remaing Chippie Whom Can Take The Award ,
And That His The Beddows Family ,whom Are Still There
And They Have Been There For Generations,
I Urge You To Go And Try Them
It Would Be Well Worth Aday On Your Bus Passes
You Can Eat In But Go Early To Grabb A Seat
They Are Somthink To Taste Of This World .
They Are On The Coventry Road At Haymills
On The Island By Asda,
 
It would be a long way from here in Canada to go to Beddows Chippie - We have a good one here in Richmondhill - called the 'Old Galley' You can have hamburgers or steak dinners etc - but no mushy peas!
 
Lynda they were called Grey Peas in the Black Country. But they were lovely with Bacon & big cunks of bread.:yipi:

The real name is NewZealand Maple and I could only get them from a Bird Feed Shop
 
Many places in Vancouver sell Mushy Peas and most of them do them
very well. Loads of Brits live here so there is a discerning clientele who know their mushy peas.
 
Yam Right Alf,the Black Country Folk
Luv There Pae,s All Mushy
With Everythink I Was Gunna Say That But I Thought
The Brumielass Would Would,nt Believe It
Do Yoh Eat Them Alf Terah Our Kid Mind Howyou Go
And Keep Those Paes On The Boil
Have A Nice Day Alf Best Wishes Astonian
 
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