Pigeon peas

Alright, who is going to cook pigeon peas on the 5th November?

If only I could find some. The last lot I got were bought in Preston by my brother in law

https://wigan-peers.forumotion.com/t726-parched-peas?highlight=pigeon+peas

There is a whole raft of them on Amazon but they don't look quite the same and prices vary considerably. Maybe worth a look...

Some will have been crop sprayed with chemicals and are not fit for human consumption

Others will be fit for human consumption

Yer takes your chance

If they're labeled as pigeon peas thats what theyre for, if they're labeled black peas that should be for human consumption, do you trust the retailer though, he might be trying to vastly increase his profits

We never died from  eating pigeon peas

They didn't spray them years ago

Where do they grow?

In soil

An interesting recipe for pigeon peas.

Recipe Pigeon Peas

Bad boys, bad boys....

Onions and paper

http://onionsandpaper.blogspot.com/2015/11/lancashire-black-peas.html

We had knocker uppers all over Wigan. Here’s Mary Smith, she was a dab hand with her pea shooter...



Mary Smith of Brenton Street, Scholes was 65 when this photo was taken in 1931. She earned around sixpence a week as a knocker-upper and, following in her mother's footsteps jobwise, was paid to wake workers in the early morning. She woke her clients by shooting peas at their windows and is thought to have been one of Wigan's last knocker-uppers. Mary had married Thomas Edward Smith in 1884 when she was 19 and they had 13 children only two of whom survived to adulthood.

https://wigan-peers.forumotion.com/t3772-knocker-upper?highlight=knocker+upper

I've been in my cupboard, with ear defenders on suppin' red' no peys though {I do miss my under the stair}

I hope OY has been out and about tonight taking pics