CATEGORY |
CUISINE |
TAG |
YIELD |
Meats |
|
|
1 |
Servings |
INGREDIENTS
2 |
c |
Cow peas; (soaked overnight) |
1/4 |
lb |
Salt pork or other seasoning meat |
1 |
c |
Uncooked rice |
3 |
tb |
Bacon drippings |
INSTRUCTIONS
From: M. M. McBride, Encyclopedia of Cooking (1959)* HOPPIN' JOHN: A dish
of rice and peas, native to South Carolina.
Boil the peas with salt pork until tender, 1-1/2 to 2 hours, or 30 minutes
in a pressure cooker Add the peas and 3 cups of the water in which they
were cooked to rice and drippings. Cook over slow heat for 1 hour. Serves
6.
NOTE: Dried Black eyed peas or Crowder peas may be used.
Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 503 by AsterBIu
<[email protected]> on Jan 12, 1998
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