Once again referring to Wikipedia:
Pease pudding, sometimes known as pease pottage or pease porridge, is a
baked vegetable product, which mainly consists of split yellow or Carlin
peas, water, salt and spices, often cooked with a bacon or ham joint. It is
similar in texture to hummus, light yellow in color, with a mild taste.
Pease pudding was traditionally produced in England, especially in the
industrial North Eastern areas - although it is now widely available, often
in butcher's shops (due to the bacon connection). It is often served with
ham/bacon and stottie cakes.
You'd be hard pressed to find a butcher's shop in many towns now. The only
one left in Poole was absorbed into the nearest Sainsburys supermarket.
There's one trained butcher working mornings only, who actually know what I
are talking about when I ask for "two thin slices of beef for beef olives".
None of the other "butchery" staff seem to know the different cuts of meat,
less alone know about hanging it. Unless you buy the expensive "finest",
"taste the difference" or whatever the supermarkets call their hung meat,
it's straight off the animal in the slaughterhouse and onto the supermarket
shelves. Cooks like shoe leather. But modern wives don't seem to know
anything about foot unless it comes in a container to put in the microwave
and they'd probably be horrified to know that tenderness in meat comes as
the rotting process proceeds. But I digress.
Pease pudding is featured in a nursery rhyme, Pease Porridge Hot.
And before anyone asks, stottie cakes:
Stottie cake or stotty is a type of bread produced in the North East of
England. It is a thick, flat, round loaf (usually about 30 cm in diameter by
8 cm deep).
Stotties tend to be eaten split and filled. Common fillings include ham and
pease pudding, but also bacon, egg and sausage. The heavy texture of the
bread gives it its name (to 'stott' is Geordie dialect meaning 'to bounce'),
and also makes it difficult for many people to eat one whole in one sitting.
Elsewhere in the world, bread similar to the Stottie is known as Oven Bottom
Bread.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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