Yield: 1 Servings
Measure | Ingredient |
---|---|
2 cups | Cow peas; (soaked overnight) |
¼ pounds | Salt pork or other seasoning meat |
1 cup | Uncooked rice |
3 tablespoons | Bacon drippings |
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, 1-½ 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 <AsterBIu@...> on Jan 12, 1998