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Title: Hoppin' John (Carolina Peas and Rice)
Categories: None
Yield: 1 Servings

2 c Cow peas; (soaked overnight)
1/4 lb Salt pork or other seasoning
-meat
1 c Uncooked rice
3 tb 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, 1-1/2 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
on Jan 12, 1998