{"id":8855,"date":"2016-12-06T16:39:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T15:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=8855"},"modified":"2024-02-07T17:27:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T16:27:59","slug":"did-the-carlin-pea-originate-in-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=8855","title":{"rendered":"Did the Carlin Pea originate in Norway?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PC123954\"<\/a>At the weekend, I packed some seed of Carlin Pea, a very old English pea that I’ve grown here in Malvik since around 1990 when I ordered it from the Heritage Seed Library in the UK. I was googling it and to my great surprise, I discovered that it is both now commercially available in the UK and that there is actually a story about it arriving on a boat from Norway:<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u2026one tradition has it that when Newcastle was besieged by the Scots (in 1327), the citizens might have starved but for the arrival of a cargo of dried peas from Norway on the Sunday before Palm Sunday, known as Carlin Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2026and concerning the origin of the name Carlin:<\/p>\n

\u00abNorth East, Lincolnshire, Nottingham
\nCarling Peas, Black peas (Maple Peas or\u00a0Pigeon Peas), boiled and then lightly fried in butter or beef fat, well-seasoned. Eaten, or given away, a tradition during Lent, particularily on ‘Carlin (or Carling or Care*) Sunday’, usually noted as the 5th Sunday in Lent known in the Church as ‘Passion Sunday’, but occasionally with the 6th Sunday in Lent, due to regional variations in the Church Calendar. Known by this name at least since Turner’s Herbal of 1562, the word may derive from ‘care’.\u201d
\n* \u201cCare\u201d is an alternative name for \u201cPassion\u201d.
\n(Source:\u00a0http:\/\/www.foodsofengland.co.uk\/carlinpeasorbrownbadgers.htm<\/a> and https:\/\/www.slowfood.org.uk\/ff-producers\/nick-saltmarsh-hodmedods-carlin-peas<\/a> )<\/p>\n

There are, however, alternative interpretations of the word Carlin, see http:\/\/adambalic.typepad.com\/the_art_and_mystery_of_fo\/2007\/02\/left_maple_peas.html<\/a><\/p>\n

I sent the peas this week after a request from Agneta Magnusson in Sesam (Swedish Seed Savers). Sweden, unlike Norway has a rich diversity of surviving old peas, so I asked if they knew of any old varieties that resembled the Carlin Pea. They answered that, no, they hadn\u2019t seen such a round \u201cmarbled\u201d grey pea before!
\nThere\u2019s some justification then in considering the Carlin Pea to also be a Norwegian heirloom!<\/p>\n

The flowers are also very attractive:
\nhttp:\/\/www.charlesdowding.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/jun162-Carlin-pea.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n

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Carlin seed pods<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dried mixed peas, including Purple Podded and Carlin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sowing peas for indoor sprouting in my living room: Carlin and another Norwegian heirloom Ringeriksert!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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