[AT] OFF TOPIC Pea Crops

charlie hill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Fri Jul 9 09:06:34 PDT 2010


Charlie,  they are eaten like dry lima beans or black eye peas.  Soak them 
in water then simmer them for a couple of hours in water seasoned with some 
salt pork or whatever.  Makes a nice bean soup.

Charlie Hill

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From: "Charlie V" <1cdevill at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 11:10 AM
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Subject: Re: [AT] OFF TOPIC Pea Crops

> Well, Ralph, it seems your product is not going to the fresh freezing or
> canning market.  What is the end use?  Seed?  or animal feed ?? or  ???
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charlie V.
>
> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Charlie V" <1cdevill at gmail.com>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> >
>> Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 6:01 AM
>> Subject: [AT] OFF TOPIC Pea Crops
>>
>>
>> > The pea trucks would often be overloaded enough to allow some bunches 
>> > of
>> > pea
>> > vines to drop off along the roads on the way to the vinery.  As kids, 
>> > we
>> > would spend considerable time picking the dropped vines and filling the
>> > front baskets of our bikes.  What a great treat it was to sit in the
>> shade
>> > ,
>> > pick the pods from the vines and eat the fresh peas as we shelled them.
>> > If
>> > we could get a large enough collection, we took them home and shelled
>> them
>> > for Mom to cook for dinner.  In my opinion at the time, cooking spoiled
>> > the
>> > peas, so most were eaten under the shade tree.
>> >
>> > Charlie V. in WNY
>>
>> Charlie, when they harvest the peas here, ususally in August, they are 
>> hard
>> as stones and not the kind of thing you'd want to be chewing on. In fact
>> they tend to wear the moving parts of the combines more so than ordinary
>> cereal grains. They have to be dry for threshing and storage.
>>
>> Ralph in Sask.
>>
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