Peas, crate

Dried legume bushel, stretches meat into thick nourishing pottage for garrisons.

A bushel of dried peas, split or whole, fills a merchant’s crate for bulk sale to manors or garrisons. Boiled until soft, they stretch meat or stand alone as a thick, nourishing pottage. A single bushel feeds a garrison or village for weeks; a kitchen keeps jars of them always on hand.