[SPAM] RE: Butter Beans -Lima Beans and fresh rubtabaga and greens question

[Guest guest]

We live in the southeast USA and we're always called them butter beans if they

were speckled brown, but lima beans if they were green in color.. Yummmmmmmm

 

Just made some for lunch yesterday, along with an iron skillet of baked

cornbread, and some fresh cooked Mustard greens.... I Diced up some tomatoes and

sweet onions and spooned them onto my Butter beans(on my plate). I also baked

some Worthington Fri-Chik. Then had cucumber slices on the side and boy was

that a delicious meal.

 

 

I saw at a produce stand yesterday, some fresh rutabaga greens and their roots

on them to cook. They weren't waxed or anything. Have you ever cooked

Rutabaga leaves before with the sliced up rutabaga root in them.? I've never

eaten the greens on the top of the rutabaga before. How do they taste? I

wonder how these fresh unwaxed rutabaga would taste. I always buy the waxed

ones and they had no leaves on them. Wonder why they put the wax on them. I

wonder if it helps slow down the aging of the vegetable and keeps it from

smelling. Anyone know?

 

Thanks

Judy

 

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Mary Wilson

Saturday, March 10, 2007 10:35 PM

[sPAM] RE: Re: Butter Beans -Lima Beans

 

 

In the South butter beans are known as Sivvy Beans or Sibby Beans. Eggplant

is known as

Guinea Squash. Those are the names my Grandmother used. mary in SC

On Behalf Of Kathleen M. Pelley

Saturday, March 10, 2007 10:08 PM

Re: Butter Beans -Lima Beans

 

I believe that the Harry Potter books refer to butter beans also.

 

Kathleen

Eureka CA

 

I wondered why my family always called Lima beans " butter beans " ..Now

I know..Yes my great grand parents were from the UK..Growing up in a

> small rural town in Colorado Butter Beans were the only beans that

> our family ate.