Carlings on Carling Sunday

14 days before Easter · Northern England

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On the second Sunday before Easter northern families ate carlings, grey peas soaked overnight and fried in butter. Brockett said the day was once called Care Sunday, as Good Friday and Holy Week were Care Friday and Care Week, from the religious care of the season. He thought the peas stood in for the beans of the heathens.

grey peas steeped all night in water, and fried the next day with butter. In the North they are served at table, on the second Sunday before Easter, called Carling Sunday

From Brockett's Glossary of North Country Words, p. 62. Read the original

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The carling-groat No longer kept Northern EnglandAt carling time a northern drinker's carling-groat was the money he spent at the public-house, and in return the landlord set out the carlings free.
The gy-carling on Carling Sunday Lore and belief NorthumberlandOn the Borders people were told to eat carlings on Carling Sunday until they were too full for the gy-carling to get a grip of their belly.
Boys pelting with carlings No longer kept Northern EnglandIn the North the fifth Sunday in Lent was called Care, Carle or Carling Sunday, and the proper food was grey peas soaked overnight and fried in butter.
Whirlin Sunday and whirlin cakes No longer kept CambridgeshireIn the villages round Wisbech the fifth Sunday in Lent was kept as Whirlin Sunday, when almost every family baked whirlin cakes.

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