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Serves four to six.

In new peas cooked to be eaten in the pod, you must add bacon on a meat day: and on a fish day, when they are cooked, you separate the liquid and add underneath melted salt butter, and then shake it.

The Feast of the Holy Trinity falls at the end of May, or the first half of June, eight weeks after Easter. This menu item from In Festo Sancte Trinitatis in Cena indicates that advantage was being taken of the availability of fresh produce.

2 pounds fresh new peas pods
3 slices of bacon
2 Cup water
Salt to taste
1 Knob of butter (optional)

1. Rinse the pea pods, and trim off stems.

2. In a pot, over medium heat, bring water to a boil, add bacon, reduce heat, and simmer, covered, for ten minutes.

3. Add pea pods, return to boil, reduce heat, and simmer, covered, for twenty minutes, or until the pea pods are tender. Remove the bacon, and drain. Put into a serving bowl, salt to taste.

Add butter if desired. The bacon may be added as a garnish.