What Is Pease Pottage?

Pease pudding (pease pottage or pease porridge or peasen) is a near-solid cooked mix of boiled split peas, usually including yellow or Carlin peas, water, salt and spices, often cooked with a bacon or ham joint. Sometimes bound with egg or mashed potato.

What is the meaning of pease pottage?

Pease Pottage is a dish made of peas, more commonly known nowadays as pease pudding. Several accounts attempt to associate the dish with the village, but all are uncorroborated and implausible.

Why is it called pease pudding?

The kind of peas, or legumes, used would not have been fresh, but dried, split green peas, which kept well all the year through. The dish probably started out as pease porridge, but after the pudding cloth was invented, it became a pudding, often eaten with salt pork.