Hey Grandpa, What's For Supper?

[2dream]

OHHHHHHHHHHH Scrambled, my mouth is watering.
I had left over turnip greens with boxed mac and cheese. I am home alone as usual from Sunday night thur Thursday night. After the leftovers are gone I just eat oatmeal or cereal or whatever.
Ya'll are killing me.

 

[Rosalind]

It's just the hulls, not the peas themselves. You eat the peas separate. I was always told it's because in the Deep South youse can't grow the same kind of grapes we have up North, so this is instead of grape jelly.

Purple pea hull jelly:

1 gallon pea hulls
2 pkgs. Sure-Jell
8 c. sugar

Wash pea hulls thoroughly, at least twice, then bring to boil in a heavy pan with enough
water to cover hulls. Boil over low heat 8 to 10 minutes. Save the juice, approximately
8 cups, and discard hulls. Combine juice and Sure-Jell in heavy saucepan and bring to a
boil. Boil for 2 minutes. Add sugar and boil an additional minute. Pour mixture into glass
jars and seal. Purple hull peas produce grape flavored jelly.
White crowder peas produce
honey flavored jelly.

Lady peas make apple jelly.

By combining the hulls of crowder,
purple, whippoorwill, and lady peas, a plum tasting jelly results.

 

[Yogiman]

Well, Rosalind, I ain't never! Live and learn, hugh? If you had not included a recipe I would have thought you were just joshin me. And I know you know something about peas or you could not have named all of these.
I have eatten peas all my life and that is a long time and lots of them. I got a freezer full of peas now from my garden, i.e. purple hulls, crowder peas, blackeye peas, etc.
Around here the cows and the mule get the pea hulls and the butter bean hulls. I'm gonna save this recipe. They might get sort changed this year.
Having said that, what part of the country are you in or from? Sounds as if you are familiar with a pea patch. Thanks for the recipe.

 

[2dream]

Rosalind - Wow - I thought I had heard it all - born and raised here in Mississippi and I have never heard of pea jelly. I called my mother who is 87 and ask her about it. She thought I had lost my mind. She said the same thing Yogi said - pea hulls go to the cows and mules.
So, that being said. My next years crop of peas will have hulls boiled and made into jelly.
I even did a quick internet search on this and was totally blown away.
The internet is an amazing tool and I learn something everyday on BYC.

 

[2dream]

I have been doing some research on this. Seems to be an Arkansas thing. I have found a few other references - one in Texas and one on a black history site but nothing that actually tells me how this originated so far.
Anyway, I will make the jelly and depend on you for the biscuits cause my biscuits will knock a mule out. Biscuits and pies are my downfall.

 

[Yogiman]

Yeah, I've done corn cob jelly and watermelon rind jelly but I had never even heard of pea hull jelly. Granma started making corcob jelly for us kyoungens after she started getting Sears Roebuck catalogs. Know what I mean?

2dream,
Hang loose, I'm gonna help you with that biscuit problem. Meanwhile, do you have a Dollar General store in your area?

 

[2dream]

Yogi
Please give me a reason to go to Dollar General.
MY DH says we are gonna go broke cause I won't stay out of the dollar store.
It is just about a 1/2 mile from the house. I buy all my coffee and what few canned goods I get there plus all house hold paper and cleaning products.

 

[Yogiman]

2dream,
I'll give you the best reason you'll ever want for going to Dollar General and fix your biscuit problem. Look for Shawnee Best self rising flour there. Follow the recipe on the back for Homestead Biscuits. I bake mine at 400 degrees rather than the 450. I have used this flour and recipe all of my life. It's a no brainer, can't miss recipe and sooooooo easy.
I can't tell you the difference in this flour and the rest. But I can assure you that once you eat a biscuit made with this flour, you will never eat a biscuit made from any other flour.
When I can't find it in the stores I order 50 pounds at a time from the Shawnee mill.
I made a pan of biscuits for my supper tonight and took a pic of them to post here. But somebody has got the desktop PC tied up and I can't download my pic.
I'm sending Prissy some of this flour tomorrow. Her life will never be the same again.

 

[2dream]

Ok, I will let you know tomorrow night how they turn out. I will stop on my way home from work tomorrow night and come straight home an cook me some of those biscuits. Thanks. If it works for
me my DH will be so surprised this next weekend.
The few times I have made biscuits he just groans and says "ummmm wasteing flour again".

 

[countryboy]

sounds like ice cream time, thats what i think about it. i love to cook with those peppers, also am addicted to tony chachere's seasoning. i like to roast it in the pan a minute before i toss the meat in the pan.