Farrow's Giant Marrowfat Peas - 300g

Processed marrowfat peas are a fixture of British eating: on the side at the chip shop, next to a pie at the football, spooned beside a Sunday tea. Farrow's is one of the names people picture when they think of the tin, and the Giant Marrowfat Peas are the ones it is best known for.

Peas are easy to find anywhere. What you are hunting for is that particular soft, starchy, slightly salty pea from home, the one that turns a plate of chips into a proper meal. When the craving lands on a Tuesday night, nothing else scratches it.

It is a 300g tin that sits happily in the cupboard until you need it. Tip it into a pan, warm it through, drain or keep a little of the liquid depending on how loose you like them. Give them a rough mash and you are halfway to mushy peas. One tin feeds two people with chips, or one person being honest.

People tend to pick them up alongside the rest of a chippy tea at home: fish fingers, a decent pie, a bottle of malt vinegar and something to settle the mint sauce question once and for all.