Posted on 12/31/2001 6:01:00 PM PST by Uncle George
A family tradition in millions of homes the humble black eyed peas are eaten as a symbol of a prosperious coming year. Not a lot of people like the taste of them but some inventive recipes make them delicious. My wife and I and family have had them every New Years for our 49 years of marriage so why tinker with success? What is your favorite recipe for the humble little black eye?
I hope Dale wins Daytona!
That sausage’ll be REALLY good by now then ;^b
I blame tubebender :o)
... still a great recipe!
LOL.
PRINTING OFF.
SOUNDS GREAT.
THX.
Happy NEW YEAR to you too!
You’re receipe sounds so good it reads like an invitation. I’ll have to calculate my travel-time.
Southern food with a long history has crossed several cultures and continents.
by Renee Studebaker
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Updated: 5:52 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009
Published: 12:40 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009
From the earliest records mentioning black-eyed peas, it seems that this humble pea, indigenous to Africa or the Far East -- or both, depending on your historical reference -- was intent on traveling the world. The Babylonian Talmud, compiled around the year 500, instructs Hebrews to include several foods on their tables in the New Year for good luck; among them are black-eyed peas. By the 1700s, black-eyed peas (aka cowpeas and Southern peas) had made their way to the West Indies and to America on the ships of slave traders.
According to one oft-repeated story, the black-eyed pea saved many Confederate soldiers and civilians from starvation. Here's how it goes:
When Union troops were stealing livestock and burning food crops in and around Vicksburg, they left behind stores of dried black-eyed peas, apparently because they thought the peas were just feed for cattle, which they had also stolen. Another story kicks the legend up a notch: A ragtag team of starving Confederate soldiers awoke one morning to find themselves just a stone's throw from a field of black-eyed pea vines covered in dried pea pods, ready to harvest. They picked them and they feasted. It was New Year's Day.
Every year, on New Year's Day, many thousands of people, mostly Southerners, eat at least a few black-eyed peas in hopes that the legumes will bring them good luck and prosperity in the coming year.....
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A quick and totally unscientific survey in my immediate work area revealed that seven out of 10 of my co-workers who admit to eating black-eyed peas on New Year's Day say the peas are bland, mushy and generally not very appetizing. But they eat them anyway, for various reasons, including "my mother-in-law makes me......"
Happy New Year!!
Yes the recipe sounds yum-o - I wonder if glock would FedEx us some so we don’t have to drive over there :)
I love how this thread started in 2001
Over here - This is one of your older posts...
Thanks for the ping GR and Happy New Year to ya'll.
After all these years you'd think the BEPs would be soft by now... Also sounds like a nice Merlot wine would go well with this recipe.
I think I had been posting for only a month and I actually find my posts quite intelligent and showing great potential in those days...
I agree. Then what happened?
THANKS.
Come on VF, you know the answer... I fell in with the Nascar crowd and it was downhill from there...
Better.
Sauerkraut and mash potatoes is the good luck New Year meal,\S
I’m going to email my little* sister and ask her if she has Momma’s recipe.
*Little is a term of endearment and has absolutely nothing to do with her size or age...
New years day for us is typical southern dinner(we normally do not eat much fried food):
country fried steak
turnip greens
black eyed peas(frozen peas, ham hock, a piece of onion, salt and pepper)
mashed potatoes
dessert: chocolate cake with white 7 minute frosting
Happy New Year everyone!
Oops forgot, and cornbread, with sugar.
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