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Great recipe for Gray Peas (Pays) and Bacon. My Husband comes from the Black Country so Gray Peas and Bacon are a nostalgic dish from his Childhood. Soak the peas and pearl barley overnight and then place in a saucepan with the onion, previously browned bacon and salt and pepper. Cook slowly for three hours. (In our experience the bacon is chopped into small pieces before browning).
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook gray peas (pays) and bacon using 3 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Gray Peas (Pays) and Bacon:
- Get 1 lb Gray Peas
- Get 1 Soda Tablet or 1 tsp Bicarb
- Prepare 1 lb Bacon
Some traditional Black Country foods include pork scratchings, faggots and peas and bread pudding; but the one I'm going to write today is grey peas and bacon. We have our own dialect here in the Black Country, so grey peas in our dialect is gray pays. Grey peas …a pea with many other names. Soak the peas and pearl barley overnight and then place in a saucepan with the onion, previously browned bacon and salt and pepper.
Instructions to make Gray Peas (Pays) and Bacon:
- The peas need to be soaked for 24 hours, cover them with plenty of cold water in a big bowl with a lid. You can add the Soda tablet or Bicarb to help the peas soften. Check them a few times and top up the water if it gets low.
- Rinse the peas and add them to a large saucepan… then cover with fresh water. They get about 1/3 bigger while cooking so make sure you have room for that.
- Bring to the boil and simmer for 45 minutes
- Chop and fry the bacon until it is brown
- Turn down the heat to the lowest setting, add the bacon, cover and cook for a further 2 hours… but they could keep warm all day!
- Serve in a bowl, or perhaps as a side to accompany Pork Faggots.
Grey peas …a pea with many other names. Soak the peas and pearl barley overnight and then place in a saucepan with the onion, previously browned bacon and salt and pepper. Cook slowly for three hours. (In our experience the bacon is chopped into small pieces before browning). About half hour before serving: In a large pan, fry bacon and onion in a little oil or spray. When browned, drain bacon/onion on a kitchen towel to drain off any fat/oil and add to grey peas.
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