In the Thackeray short story "A Little Dinner at Timmins's", when a character asks his wife "Why don't you ask some of our old friends? Old Mrs. In 19th-century English literature, pea soup is referred to as a simple food and eating it as a sign of poverty. Although pease was replaced as a staple by potatoes during the nineteenth century, the food still remains popular in the national diet in the form of " mushy peas" commonly sold as the typical accompaniment to fish and chips, as well as with meat pies. Pease pudding was a high-protein, low-cost staple of the diet and, made from easily stored dried peas, was an ideal form of food for sailors, particularly boiled in accompaniment with salt pork which is the origin of pea (and ham) soup. "Pease" is the Middle English singular and plural form of the word " pea"-indeed, "pea" began as a back-formation.
During that era, vendors in the streets of Athens were selling hot pea soup." Įating fresh "garden" peas before they were matured was a luxurious innovation of the Early Modern period: by contrast with the coarse, traditional peasant fare of pease pottage (or pease porridge), Potage Saint-Germain, made of fresh peas and other fresh greens braised in light stock and pureed, was an innovation sufficiently refined that it could be served to Louis XIV of France, for whose court at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye it was named, c. Pea soup has been eaten since antiquity it is mentioned in Aristophanes' The Birds, and according to one source "the Greeks and Romans were cultivating this legume about 500 to 400 BC.
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