So we had a dish of mackerell and pease, and so he bid us good night, going to lie on board the hoy, and I to bed.
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, May/Jun 1662
Among the many desirable things our parents brought us the most delightful was cow pease, rice, and a piece of bacon, cooked together; the mixture was called by the slaves âhopping John.â
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My Life In The South
Dinner was a bowl full of thick pease-porridge and a slice of oat bread, and breakfast was more of the bread, toasted this time, with a bit of butter and a trickle of honey.
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The Lark And The Wren
âSometimes we used bacon and buttered pease, sometimes buttered bag pudding, made with currants and raisins, sometimes drinked pottage of beer and oatmeal, and sometimes water pottage well buttered.â
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Anne Bradstreet and Her Time
However read it, as your pease are shelling;
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The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland