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Findus products include ready meals, peas and Crispy Pancakes, the latter of which were invented in the early 1970s. [ 1 ] The Swiss food company Nestlé owned the Findus brand from 1962 to 2000; it sold the rights to the brand in most of Europe (except in Italy where it was owned by Unilever ) in 2000 whilst retaining ownership in Switzerland ...
A variant (particularly popular around Bolton and Bury of Greater Manchester, and Preston, Lancashire) is parched peas – carlin peas (also known as maple peas or black peas) soaked and then boiled slowly for a long time; these peas are traditionally served with vinegar. Mushy peas have occasionally been referred to as "Yorkshire caviar." [3]
I've prepared ful mesdames for years, soaking and pressure-cooking maple peas, and even bought them in tins imported from Egypt, which taste exactly the same as the ones I cook. Hard to tell the difference between the three, although the Egyptian ones may be consistently a touch browner in shade.
It has more or less horizontal branches, and looks similar to Acer palmatum the Japanese Maple. The leaves are opposite and simple being 6 to 10 cm across, with base truncate or cordate. The leaves are 5-lobed and palmate. The lobes are ovate, the middle lobe having 5 to 8 pairs of lateral veins with minor veins finely reticulate. [4]
Lathyrus latifolius, the perennial peavine, perennial pea, broad-leaved everlasting-pea, [2] or just everlasting pea, is a robust, sprawling herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the pea family Fabaceae. It is native to Europe but is present on other continents, such as North America and Australia, [3] where it is most often seen along ...
Canned marrowfat or "processed" peas are reconstituted from dried peas. These are soaked in cold water for 12 to 16 hours, sometimes with sodium bicarbonate added to aid softening. The peas are then blanched for 5 minutes and then canned in a brine containing sugar, salt and food colouring , before the cans are heat processed at 115 °C (239 °F).
Lathyrus japonicus, the sea pea, beach pea, circumpolar pea or sea vetchling, is a species of flowering plant in the legume family Fabaceae, native to temperate coastal areas of the Northern Hemisphere, and Argentina. It is a herbaceous perennial growing trailing stems 50–80 cm (20–31 in) long, typically on sand and gravel storm beaches.
Lathyrus tingitanus is a species of wild pea known by the common name Tangier pea. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is native to southwestern Europe and Northwest Africa, [ 4 ] and it is present in other regions of the world as an introduced species , including the Pacific Northwest of the United States.