Black Eyed Peas Recipe
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Ingredients: Black Eyed Peas
Ham
Onion
Garlic
Rotel
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Directions:Soak dry black eyed peas in large bowl full of water over night pour off that water and place in crockpot
Chop onion and add to
two tablespoons minced garlic
2 cans of original hotel (go hot kind for spicer)
Cook on high for 3-4 hours or low for 7-8 until beans are soft
Add chopped ham 30 minutes before serving
Serve with Cornbread |
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Notes: I always make this on New Years Eve and you need to buy the peas around Christmas or they will all be gone on NYE when you are looking for them.
The tradition is from Civil War times and the south had been ransacked with nothing left but "cow peas" aka Black Eyed Peas
The black-eyed peas that were “lucky” enough to be left behind would make their way to Southern tables, especially the tables of Southern slaves who celebrated emancipation as ordered by President Abraham Lincoln on New Year's Day, January 1, 1863. After the war, peas were always eaten on the first day of January.
So Eating them on New Years is said to be "lucky" and eating golden cornbread is said to bring you "money"
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