Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, black eyed peas and hog jowls. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
My mother liked to cook black eyed peas because they do not have to be soaked first. Bacon or ham can be substituted for the hog jowl if you can't find it. But try the hog jowl if you can - it's very similar to bacon.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook black eyed peas and hog jowls using 5 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Black Eyed Peas and Hog Jowls:
- Make ready 2 pounds dried black eyed peas
- Take 1 tablespoon sugar
- Take 1 tablespoon salt
- Prepare 1 gallon water
- Make ready 1-1/3 pound smoked hog jowls
Northern troops considered the peas to be suitable only for animals so they were one of the few edible things left behind by raiding soldiers. Cook hog jowls in boiling water for an hour; add drained peas and salt. Black-eyed peas and hog jowl with collard greens and cornbread are the main items. I remember my mother occasionally upholding the New Year's Day tradition of black eyed peas and hog jowl, but I don't think this tradition was honored in our household on a yearly basis.
Instructions to make Black Eyed Peas and Hog Jowls:
- Wash the peas
- Remove any bad ones and any stones
- Rinse the hog jowls
- Slice and chop the hog jowls
- Add the water, hog jowls, and peas to a big pot. Bring to a boil and cover cooking for 1 hour stirring occasionally.
- Try a pea if soft add sugar and salt stir well and simmer for 15 minutes.
- Serve I hope you enjoy!!
First, let me show you What hog jowl is, is, by J. I hope your family will be enjoying the traditional meal of collards, black-eyed peas, hog jowl and cornbread for New Year's Day. I thought in today's column I would try to explain some of the folklore and customs behind the delicious. Every New Year Day, Mom cooked hog jowls and black-eyed peas. I always ate it but it was something that I didn't enjoy at all.
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