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Bob Terwilliger
 
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Default Butter Beans: What do they look like?

Spitzmaus

> Back to er, um, BEANS for a moment: Have any of you all had Lady Cream
> Peas? Little white, tender beans, grown, I believe, in Texas?? They're a
> real treat, 'specially with the aforementioned ham and cornbread.


Yes! I had them in New Orleans a few years ago. I thought they were similar
to another favorite of mine, fresh (FRESH, I say!) black-eyed peas. (In
fact, you can make Hoppin' John with them.)

But I understand that they're really exactly the same as a lima bean. :-)

Bob