The Ritual of Shelling Peas

I've picked peas from my lilliputian pea piece twice this week.

Then I sat downward in addition to shelled out the peas. I shelled out well-nigh 3 quarts of peas from the showtime picking in addition to well-nigh 2 quarts of peas from the instant picking.

If you've ever grown shelling peas, or English linguistic communication peas equally around telephone phone them, you lot know it takes a combat of fourth dimension to rhythm out out that many peas.

And at that spot is no means to hurry it up.  Well, at that spot is 1 way. Someone 1 time told me they cooked their peas inwards the pods in addition to and then shelled them equally they ate them.

I'm certain that works simply past times cooking them inwards the pods they missed out on the ritual of shelling peas.

It's the same ritual every year, the same remembrance.

When I rhythm out out my peas, I e'er holler back how my Dad showtime taught me to works life peas in addition to afterwards selection them in addition to rhythm out them out.  I holler back him telling me how when he was a kid, everyone helped rhythm out out peas... him, his brothers, his parents, in addition to his grandparents.

They grew plenty peas to swallow fresh inwards the springtime in addition to to tin laissez passer on notice for the wintertime. That, my friends, is a lot of peas.  I tin laissez passer on notice imagine them all sitting on the forepart porch at the one-time farmhouse, shelling out peas, talking in addition to telling stories.

We don't conduct maintain nigh plenty of that variety of solid unit of measurement fourth dimension whatsoever more, create we?

I was pretty happy amongst my twenty pes row of peas in addition to how many peas I harvested this year. The multifariousness was 'Green Arrow', which I've grown for several years now, ever since I institute an one-time package of my Dad's seeds for the same variety.

I saved dorsum around peas to swallow fresh in addition to and then blanched in addition to froze well-nigh 8 cups of peas from my harvest, plenty for me to taste a few times this wintertime in addition to add together to around vegetable soup. Enough peas for me to holler back gardening amongst my Dad, plenty for me to holler back the one-time farmhouse in addition to imagine my grandparents in addition to great-grandparents sitting on the porch, shelling out peas, in addition to telling stories.

Enough for me to holler back the ritual of shelling peas.


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