Pease Porridge Hot

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"Pease Porridge Hot" or "Pease Pudding Hot" is an English children's singing game and nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19631.

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Illustration of children playing "Pease Porridge Hot" by Olive Beaupre Miller, from *In the Nursery of My Bookhouse* (1920).

Collections of nursery rhymes

"P" in The Alphabet of Old Friends by Walter Crane (1874)
"Pease-pudding hot, pease-pudding cold" in A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes by Sabine Baring-Gould (1895)
"Pease porridge hot" in A Book of Nursery Rhymes, Part I by Charles Welsh (1901)
"Pease-Porridge hot, pease-porridge cold" in A Book of Nursery Rhymes, Part V by Charles Welsh (1901)
"Pease Porridge" in The Real Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright (1916)
"Pease Porridge Hot" in The Child's Own Music Book by Albert Ernest Wier (1918)

Quotations in larger works

Quoted in chapter 35 of The Chemistry of Cookery by W. Mattieu Williams (1884)
Quoted in The Genesis of 'The Master of Ballantrae' by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905)
Quoted in Scene I of Snickerty Nick and the Giant by Julia Ellsworth Ford and Harold Witter Bynner (1919)
Quoted in The Rationale of Verse by Edgar Allen Poe (n.d.)