What Is Pease Pudding?

14.09.2023 Grady A. Lowry 0 Comments

Contents

0.1 What does pease pudding taste like?

1 What is pease pudding made of?
2 Can you eat pease pudding on toast?
3 Is pease pudding like mushy peas?
4 Why is Yorkshire called a pudding?
- - 4.0.1 Is pease pudding a speed food?
- 4.1 How old is the pease porridge?
  - 4.1.1 What is Geordie caviar?
5 Is pudding a superfood?
6 Are pea shells healthy?
- - 6.0.1 Is pudding a junk food?
7 What is the British version of pudding?
- - 7.0.1 What do the English call black pudding?
- 7.1 What is tinned pease pudding?
8 Is pease pudding like mushy peas?
9 What is the difference between Dahl and pease pudding?
- 9.1 What does pork pudding taste like?
10 Is pease pudding a speed food?

What does pease pudding taste like?

In all my years I’ve never eaten it hot – always cold and always spread liberally on bread with sliced ham. And never in my life has it made it to nine days old. Pease pudding is a very simple thing to cook at home. It’s light on ingredients but big on nutty, lentil, smoky ham flavour with a lovely smooth texture.

What is pease pudding made of?


Nutrition Facts (per serving)
172	Calories
9g	Fat
20g	Carbs
4g	Protein

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Nutrition Facts
Servings: 4
Amount per serving
Calories	172
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 9g	11%
Saturated Fat 3g	16%
Cholesterol 11mg	4%
Sodium 304mg	13%
Total Carbohydrate 20g	7%
Dietary Fiber 4g	14%
Total Sugars 10g
Protein 4g
Vitamin C 4mg	21%
Calcium 33mg	3%
Iron 2mg	9%
Potassium 280mg	6%
*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet.2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.

Nutrition information is calculated using an ingredient database and should be considered an estimate.) Pease pudding is a traditional British recipe hailing from northeast England. It is not a pudding in the dessert sense of the word but is a savory dish that is served with cooked meats, most commonly boiled ham or gammon (cured hind leg of pork).

Cold, leftover pease pudding can also be fried. A pease pudding is made from cooking yellow split peas into a lovely soft paste-like consistency. The dish is not unlike the famous mushy peas, also much loved in the North and made with dried marrowfat peas—though you would never fry mushy peas, as they are too soft and do not hold their shape.

Pease pudding is also known locally as pease pottage or pease porridge. This recipe comes from celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay’s Gammon with Pease Pudding and Parsley Sauce.

Why is it called pease pudding?

“Pease Pudding hot,Pease Pudding cold, Pease Pudding in the pot nine days old Some like it hot, some like it cold, some like it in the pot nine days old” – You may of heard of this nursery rhyme that was first published in John Newberry’s “Mother Goose’s Melody ” around the year 1760, but one of Pease Puddings first mentions in culinary written history was in a 14th century recipe book entitled “The Forme of Cury”.

Pease Pudding started off as Pease Pottage or Pease porridge.
Pease is the middle English word for Pea.
The name Pease Pudding refers to a type of porridge made with Yellow Split Peas.
Fresh peas were never used as they would spoil quickly hence why the dry, yellow split pea would be favoured.
In medieval times poor families would only have one big pot or cauldron to cook with, so Pease Pottage would be have been a staple meal.

A big pot consisting of Yellow split peas, salt,water, and spices and occasionally meat would be hung over a fire and left there for hours to boil and cook the ingredients. The dish that probably started off being called “Pease Pottage” would end up changing its name to “Pease Pudding” after the pudding cloth was invented.

The pudding cloth was a large square of linen which could be filled with different ingredients.
The four corners of the linen would then be tied together and the whole thing lowered into a boiling cauldron.
This allowed puddings to be made without using animal intestines.
Using the pudding cloth had great advantage over the previous way of cooking Pease Pottage, because instead of taking up the whole pot or cauldron with a “pottage”, a pudding version of the dish could be cooked in a bag, right along side a piece of Mutton, Beef or salted pork so that two courses were cooked together in the same pot.

To make “Pease Pudding” this way, the dried peas were soaked overnight, boiled then drained, before being mixed with a little bit of seasoning and placed into the pudding cloth then lowered into the boiling cauldron. The clapping game/ nursery rhyme quoted above suggests that Pease Pudding had quite a good shelf life, being “in the pot nine days old”, however it is more likely that the leftovers cut into slices, would be ok to eat hot or cold for well over a week.

Pease Pudding is recognisably a Northern dish, however there was a rich pre war history of Pease Pudding shops that sat along side Pie & Mash and Fish & Chips. Sir Walter Besant, English novelist and historian, recorded that in East London 1901 the menu choices of an average “cockney” eatery was fried fish & pickles, meat pies, German sausages and blood pudding, but also Pease Pudding and Saveloys.

Remember the famous “Oliver” song, “Food glorious food, hot sausage and mustard, while were in the mood, cold jelly and custard, Pease Pudding and Saveloys, what next is the question? rich gentlemen have it boys indigestion.

Do you eat pease pudding hot or cold?

by Josiah Meldrum 5 Comments Pease pudding hot, pease pudding cold. Still much loved and eaten in the North East pease pudding is sadly overlooked elsewhere but is an easy and satisfying dish to make with Split Yellow Peas, Pease pudding – also known as pease porridge, pease pottage or even “Geordie hummus” – is extremely easy to cook and very, very satisfying to eat – hot or, as the nursery rhyme says, cold.

Traditionally pease pudding is served with pork and was often cooked in a muslin with the ham.
My version is vegetarian, it’s really good hot with roast vegetables and leafy greens or cold in a sandwich – much in the way you might use houmous.
If you eat meat, search out a stottie and some good quality ham.

Preparation time: 5 mins | Cooking time: 60 mins | Total time: 65 mins Serves: 4 to 6

How healthy is pease pudding?

Even better, pease pudding is good for you and loaded with fibre and perfect for Slimming World, Weight Watchers, Gluten Free and Vegetarian dieters. It is also very easy to adapt for vegans that want to enjoy pease pudding too!

What is another name for pease pudding?

Pease pudding Savoury pudding dish made of boiled legumes “Pease porridge” redirects here. For other uses, see, Pease pudding Pea puree Alternative namesPease pottage, pease porridge, pea and ham soupTypePlace of originEnglandRegion or stateNorthumbriaMain ingredients, water, salt, Pease pudding, also known as pease porridge, is a savoury dish made of, typically peas, with water, salt and spices, and often cooked with a or joint. A common dish in the, it is consumed to a lesser extent in the rest of Britain, as well as in other regions worldwide.

Why is pease pudding 9 days old?

From the Hoax – In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day.

Sometimes the stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while — hence the rhyme, “Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old.” The resulting stew was called “pottage,” and it was the basic element of the peasant diet. And yes, sometimes the remains of one day’s cooking would be used in the next day’s fare.

(This is true in some modern “peasant stew” recipes.) But it was not common for food to remain there for nine days — or for more than two or three days, for that matter. People living on the edge of starvation were not likely to leave food on their plates or in the pot.

Contaminating the carefully-gathered ingredients of a night’s supper with rotting nine-day-old remains, thus risking illness, is even more unlikely.
What is likely is that leftovers from the evening meal were incorporated into a breakfast that would sustain the hard-working peasant family for much of the day.

We have not been able to discover the origin of the “peas porridge hot” rhyme. It is unlikely to spring from 16th-century life since, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the word “porridge” did not come into use until the 17th century.

What is the difference between Dahl and pease pudding?

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Can you eat pease pudding on toast?

There are some tastes that define a region. For me, as someone growing up in the North East of England, that taste is Pease Pudding. This dish of boiled yellow split peas, eaten hot (as in the nursery rhyme), or spread on bread can take me back there like no other taste on earth.

The taste is simple with the earthy sweetness of the peas all there is to it, but that honesty of ingredients and purpose makes this far more than the sum of its parts. And the purpose of the dish is that of poverty, the pease pudding would be made alongside (and sometimes in the same pot as) the piece of bacon or ham it will supplement.

The traditional way of serving it is in a bread bun (preferably a stotty ) with a slice of ham and maybe a pickle – I preferred pickled onions, but there’s a strong case to be made for pickled beetroot. That is why you will see a pot of yellow paste in the cold meat counters of most butchers in the NE.

Although ham/bacon stock was a traditional ingredient, most commercial pease puddings (and it’s big business in the NE) is made with vegetable stock or just water. I prefer to use vegetable stock. I’ve sometimes heard pease pudding called the ‘Geordie hummus’, which never set well with me. In the course of researching this recipe I’ve discovered that it is the exact analogy of the greek dish, fava,

I’m such a fan of pease pudding that I’ll happily eat it on bread or toast on its own, but it’s supposed to be eaten alongside something else: something sharp and vinegary or lemony for preference. Cooking time is only a guideline, I’m afraid. It very much depends on how old or awkward your split peas are. Ingredients 200g yellow split peas, soaked overnight in plenty of water 750ml water 1 tsp vegetable bouillon powder, or 1 vegetable stock cube Drain and rinse the split peas. Add to a saucepan and add the water. Bring to a fast simmer. A white foamy scum will float to the top, skim this off.

Stir in the bouillon powder or stock cube.
Cover and lower the temperature to a gentle simmer.
Simmer for 90 minutes or until the peas are tender.
They should mush against the side of the pan with a wooden spoon.
Stir vigorously until you have a smooth paste (the odd lump isn’t a problem.) Season generously with salt and pepper.

Transfer to a basin or covered container and leave to cool. Serve spread on bread with as many additions as you think necessary!

Is pease pudding like mushy peas?

Pease pudding hot, pease pudding cold, Pease pudding in the pot nine days old, Some like it hot, some like it cold, Some like it in the pot nine days old. And that’s the real question – do you have your pease pudding hot or cold? Perhaps I should elaborate for those of you who aren’t familiar with this delicacy. The first thing we have to clear up is this: pease pudding is NOT mushy peas. You wouldn’t combine pease pudding with fish and chips any more than you’d put mushy peas in a sandwich – yuck. Pease pudding is a pale yellow colour and a lot smoother than its mushy counterpart.

It’s made by soaking yellow split peas in ham stock and has a creamy, subtle flavour. If you’re lucky enough to find proper pease pudding then it also has little chunks of ham in it. Every good Geordie will have eaten it at some point in his or her life (if you’re a Geordie reading this and haven’t then sort yourself out), and most of us eat as much as we can.

It’s the kind of thing that your Grandma always has in her fridge. And the kind of thing that all the local butchers sell in big slabs, like an upturned terrine. Usually, they’ll cut a bit off and give it to you in a bag or plastic tub. Let’s get back to the most important question – hot or cold? I’ve always eaten it cold as a spread in a ham sandwich (which is an absolute treat), but was surprised to learn that many of my friends and family also eat it hot. The best pease pudding sandwiches come in a stottie – a traditional Geordie treat in its own right. The stottie cake is a big bread disc with a dimple in the middle which you cut into triangular slices for your sarnies. Now, I know many UK regions each have a bread roll which doesn’t really differ from area to area – baps, barm s, muffins, buns, oven bottoms – but the stottie is different.

It’s a very heavy, dense bread which is satisfyingly chewy and very filling.
And perfect with pease pudding.
Ham and pease pudding sandwiches are the sort of reminder of home that many exiled Northerners miss – whenever my Auntie (who now lives in Shropshire) comes home she always takes a tub back with her.

Since I moved to Manchester I’ve started doing the same, though as you can see from the photos I’ve had to substitute a barm for the stottie. However, I can confirm that it still tastes lush (Geordie translation = beautiful). I hope I’ve convinced you that pease pudding is worth trying, and if that’s so then I’ve included a recipe from a friend.

Place a ham hock in your biggest pan, cover with cold water and slowly bring to the boil. Once it’s come to the boil, take it off the heat and pour away some of the water; this will get rid of some of the saltiness from the ham. Wash about 300g yellow split peas thoroughly in cold water then leave overnight (in fresh water). Next morning, bring the ham stock back up to boil, add a small diced onion and one clove of garlic, then all the yellow split peas. Turn down the heat, cover with a lid and simmer away for about one hour. Using a hand blender, blitz to a rich pulp, add a few knobs of butter, mix all together then place into covered ovenware dishes and bake in the oven for approximately 30 mins. Take out of the oven, fluff mixture through with a fork, then let it set. When cool, transfer into small dishes.

Why is Yorkshire called a pudding?

What is Yorkshire Pudding? – Yorkshire puddings are traditionally from the North of England and they used to be called dripping puddings. (Source: pixabay) If you’re not from the UK, it’s OK if you’ve never heard of Yorkshire pudding; however, if you reside in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, or Wales and you’ve never heard of it, surely you’ve been living under a rock! Yorkshire pudding is a baked roll that is similar to bread or a French “pâté a choux.” It’s made from a batter of eggs, flour, and milk or water.

It’s worth stating that most foreigners outside the UK think of a sweet, soupy, dessert when they hear the term “pudding”; however, Yorkshire pudding gets the second part of its name because centuries ago in England, puddings were a sausage-like meal that was not water-based and was solid. So, don’t expect anything like chocolate pudding.

Rather, for those who have never tried it, Yorkshire pudding is similar to a savoury pancake; it’s spongy yet cakey. The best Yorkshire pudding recipes require home cooks to put the batter in cooking pans or muffin tins and have them bake in the oven for 15 minutes, if using small tins, and 30 minutes if you are utilising bigger cake pans.

Is pease pudding a speed food?

Syn-free snack If you’re lucky enough to live in the beautiful north east of England, you’ll already know about the wonderful local delicacy that is, I hated the stuff as a kid, but as an adult developed a real taste for it. When I lived in Scotland, I would beg relatives to bring me pounds of it for me to keep in the freezer whenever they came to visit, and I would fill a carrier bag with it to bring home with me whenever I ventured south of the border.

Now, I love it even more, because it turns out that pease pudding is absolutely FREE on the Slimming World plan! Around these parts, it’s usually spread thick on stottie cake (another local delicacy), and topped with ham – the mild flavour complements it perfectly.
However, stottie (a white bread product) is loaded with syns, so I try to avoid that as much as possible.

I have, however, hit upon a great way to have a ham and pease pudding sandwich without using any bread at all, and I manage to get a bit of speed food in there too, so it’s even better. What I do is this:

Spread the pease pudding directly on the slices of ham Add some speed food/salad (I like to use a mixture of grated carrot and finely cut lettuce and cabbage) Roll up the slice of ham around the filling

There you have it – a bread-free “sandwich” you can eat any time, guilt-free. I often have it for a snack or supper on those occasions when I realy, really want a sandwich, but have already used my Healthy Extra B and am running low on syns allowance, because it gives me that satisfied feeling and doesn’t cost a single syn. Win-win! : Syn-free snack

How old is the pease porridge?

Lyrics – The lyrics to the rhyme are: 0:17 Tune for Pease Porridge Hot Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold, Pease porridge in the pot, nine days old; Some like it hot, some like it cold, Some like it in the pot, nine days old.

What is Geordie caviar?

Recipe for pease pudding, aka Geordie caviar – NB: You’ll find a number of recipes which suggest that you soak the split peas overnight. Check the packet, but six hours soaking will save only half an hour’s cooking time – why bother? However, pease pudding is essentially just the split peas; a stock made with onions, carrots, herbs and nutmeg; seasoning; and vinegar.

Is pudding a superfood?

According to some health enthusiasts, black pudding can be classed as a ‘superfood’. Read our take on the sanguine sausage and try one of our tasty recipes as we try to convert black pudding sceptics.

Are pea shells healthy?

The pea pods are rich in nutrients as it contains 24.34% carbohydrates, 13.37% crude protein, 51% fibre, 4.5% lipids and 4.5% ash (Table 1).

Is pudding a junk food?

Pudding is a favorite dessert, snack and treat for a lot of people. Flavors include vanilla, chocolate, rice, tapioca and butterscotch. It also has nutritional value, such as calcium and vitamin D. In the United States, the pudding you know and love is more like custard.

Custards have a thick consistency and rich flavor. Other countries, like England, use pudding as a savory dish. If you’re like most people in America, you enjoy the instant, dry mix and ready-to-eat puddings sold in grocery stores. They’re easy to make and serve. However, they’re not all the same. Some have better nutrition than others.

This is a nutritional guide to America’s favorite sweet dessert and what you should look out for before buying pudding. Calcium Milk makes pudding high in calcium, an important nutrient for strong bones and teeth. Calcium is also the most plentiful mineral in your body.

It’s found in blood cells, bones and teeth.
Calcium also influences muscle contractions, hormone secretions and the transmission of nerve impulses.
Pudding isn’t just tasty, it’s a healthy way to get your body’s calcium.
Vitamins and Minerals Vitamins and minerals are essential components of pudding.
Vitamin D and magnesium are terrific nutrients your body needs.

They work with calcium to strengthen your bone structure and harden your tooth enamel. All of the nutrients below are found in prepared pudding:

Vitamin A Vitamin C Vitamin B6 Vitamin B12 Vitamin D Vitamin E Riboflavin Magnesium

Protein One of the most important nutrients you need is protein. It has special enzymes that carry out certain functions in your body. A good number of these functions include metabolism and digestion. Other functions of protein include muscle contraction and the reproduction of red blood cells.

It also helps make your hair, nails and skin healthy.
Carbohydrates The carbohydrates in regular instant, ready-to-eat and dry mix pudding are high.
Sugar free has lower carbohydrates than any of those varieties.
However, be aware of certain flavors.
Pistachio, butterscotch and banana are high in carbohydrates.

Carbohydrates turn into sugars that your body doesn’t need. Read nutrition labels carefully before buying a brand. Fat There’s saturated fat in both the pudding mix and milk. Saturated fat is the unhealthy fat found in animal and dairy products. You need to watch the content of this type of fatty acid because it increases your cholesterol levels and chances of heart disease.

Sodium Pudding may taste sweet, but it has a great deal of sodium added to the mixture.
Sodium causes high blood pressure and edema.
Edema is swelling in the arms, legs and feet.
Avoid this problem by looking for low sodium puddings at the grocery store.
Calories If you’re watching calories, you want to steer away from regular pudding.

Pudding has high calories that lead to weight gain. However, you can eat a fat free variety instead of a dry mix type. Although pudding has both good and bad nutrition, it can be a healthy dish if you make it with fat free milk. Skim milk is also a better choice than whole milk.

What is the British version of pudding?

The two meanings of “pudding” – “Pudding” can refer generically to the sweet, final course of a meal, what Americans know as “dessert.” (Because it’s the UK, this has class implications. Nancy Mitford, in a famous essay comparing the speech of upper-class Britons with everyone else, categorized “pudding” as used by the elite and “sweet” as used by the proletariat.) But a pudding can also be a specific dish — and a British pudding still isn’t the same as an American one.

American puddings are closer to what the Brits would call “custard.” A British pudding is a dish, savory or sweet, that’s cooked by being boiled or steamed in something: a dish, a piece of cloth, or even animal intestine. The earliest puddings, in this sense of the word, were sausages; black pudding, a type of sausage made with pig’s blood, is sometimes included in a traditional English breakfast.

Other puddings are sweet, such as spotted dick — a sort of steamed cake with currants that’s barely sweet and, like many puddings, flavored with suet, or beef fat, rather than butter. Jam roly-poly, or roly-poly pudding, is traditionally steamed ; it consists of a pastry made with suet, spread with jam, and rolled up.

What do the English call black pudding?

black pudding, also called blood sausage, a sausage incorporating blood, popular in the British Isles and typically eaten as a breakfast food, Black pudding has been a recorded item of British cuisine since at least the 1400s, although it is certainly far older. Britannica Quiz What’s on the Menu? Vocabulary Quiz Black pudding finds a place among the full breakfasts that are typical of the British Isles, alongside fried toast, eggs, baked beans, bacon, tomato slices, and other food items. It is usually made of pig’s blood, onions, and various spices and herbs such as nutmeg, ginger, and mace, all bound together with barley or, more commonly, oatmeal and then stuffed into tripe skins.

The sausages are then boiled or baked, grilled or fried. In some regional variations cow’s blood or sheep’s blood is used, and some regional recipes call for suet (the hard fat around the kidneys and loins of cattle, sheep, and horses). The result is a dry sausage that is usually eaten in slices or crumbled on or in other dishes.

It can be used in ice cream, the sausage bits resembling chocolate chips, or added to dishes such as bubble and squeak and mashed potatoes and gravy. When used in the creation of a Scotch egg, the result has been called a “Manchester egg,” where the novelty originated.

The blood, combined with the spices, lends the sausage a flavour that is slightly sweet, a touch metallic, and spicy all at once.
Black pudding became the subject of some controversy during the years of the Reformation and the rise of various Protestant religious movements.
In 1652 Thomas Barlow, who later became an Anglican bishop of Lincoln, England, pronounced that because Hebrew dietary law prohibits the consumption of blood, Christians should follow suit; Methodists in particular shunned it for the same reason.

Black pudding figures elsewhere in British history in a perhaps apocryphal tale: it is said that in a battle near Manchester during the Wars of the Roses, the contending forces, out of ammunition, threw black puddings at each other. This event is commemorated today in the annual World Black Pudding Throwing Championships in the town of Ramsbottom.

Black pudding is considered a generally healthful dish in moderation; blood provides useful quantities of zinc and iron, yet the dish can contain high levels of sodium and fat. Before her brief term as prime minister, Liz Truss, then the environment minister, listed black pudding among other “must-eat” British foods.

For all that, many Britons, especially younger ones, exclude it from their diets. Gregory Lewis McNamee

What is tinned pease pudding?

Product Description – Foresight Pease Pudding is a rehydrated yellow split peas. A delicious and tasty ready cooked vegetable. Traditionally served hot with boiled meat. It can also be tried as hot or cold with any meat or fish. Ingredients Rehydrated Yellow Split Peas (95%), Water, Salt, Natural Turmeric Flavouring, Paprika Extract.

Is pease pudding like mushy peas?

It’s made by soaking yellow split peas in ham stock and has a creamy, subtle flavour.
If you’re lucky enough to find proper pease pudding then it also has little chunks of ham in it.
Every good Geordie will have eaten it at some point in his or her life (if you’re a Geordie reading this and haven’t then sort yourself out), and most of us eat as much as we can.

It’s a very heavy, dense bread which is satisfyingly chewy and very filling. And perfect with pease pudding. Ham and pease pudding sandwiches are the sort of reminder of home that many exiled Northerners miss – whenever my Auntie (who now lives in Shropshire) comes home she always takes a tub back with her.

What is the difference between Dahl and pease pudding?

What does pork pudding taste like?

Flavor: Black pudding sausage has stronger, earthier flavors than white sausage and can taste slightly metallic due to the inclusion of blood. White pudding typically has light flavors of onions and spices since it predominantly comprises oatmeal and pork fat.

Is pease pudding a speed food?

Now, I love it even more, because it turns out that pease pudding is absolutely FREE on the Slimming World plan! Around these parts, it’s usually spread thick on stottie cake (another local delicacy), and topped with ham – the mild flavour complements it perfectly. However, stottie (a white bread product) is loaded with syns, so I try to avoid that as much as possible.

Grady A. Lowry