How do you get green peas out of their pods? I've always done it by hand: a bit tedious, but a sort of satisfying thing to do whilst chatting or listening to a talking book perhaps. I was reading some of Grow your own vegetables by Joy Larkcom (looking for carrot root fly info, but got distracted) and she mentioned that she cooks the peas in their pods and shells them after cooking, saying that the flavour is better. It occurs to me that this could be a way of getting two dishes with one pan too - as the pods are already cooked, it is a very small step to making peapod soup. Shelling them whilst hot could be tricky though, and I think the peas would probably need refreshing with hot water as they would cool too much. Has anyone tried this method? Do you have a better method of shelling peas to suggest?
Same way. It takes me back to sitting on my grandma's porch swing, with a bag of them between us, a bag on the porch floor, in front of us, for the hulls, and a bowl in each of our laps for the peas.
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i could see cooking in the pod boosting flavor, kind of like the advice to cook sweet corn cobs in water after removing the kernels to make better chowder. Maybe more work to shell when they're cooked though. (says the laziest of the lazy--- i only grow snow peas, and we eat the pods!)
I have fond memories of sitting in someones back yard with my aunts while shelling purple hull peas.
The procedure is much like the description Nancy gave. Nice comradery ...
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Joylynn Hardesty wrote:The one year we grew enough peas for a meal, I cooked them in the shell. They opened on their own. I put them on the plates to thin out the labor. : D
Did you serve them shell and all?
I'm hoping to grow more green peas this year, so am really interested in some labour saving....