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Purple hull peas
« on: August 21, 2012, 07:00:56 AM »
My wife and I canned our first cooker full of peas last night. We ended up with about 30 pounds worth shelled still yet to get canned. I am rather happy with the way they turned out.


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Re: Purple hull peas
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2012, 07:54:47 AM »
Nice looking batch of peas.... :-)

I've been freezing mine. I've put up about 30 quarts of the purple hulls and about the same of the crowder peas....and they're still making more.

Last year there were a few "pink eye purple hulls" seeds that had gotten mixed in with my purple hull seeds....I didn't know what they were until I asked the man at the feed store where I had bought the seeds.

I've got a few late peas planted. A mix of purple hulls, crowders and for the first time, a few seperate rows of "6 weeks brown eyed peas".

Gonna get out of here in a few minutes and go pick some green limas. Tomorrow it'll be the speckled butter beans and the day after will be ford hook butter beans. I've been disappointed with the ford hook butter beans. Large, beautiful plants, bloom like crazy but haven't produced much.
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Re: Purple hull peas
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2012, 01:15:54 PM »
Nice looking batch of peas.... :-)

I've been freezing mine. I've put up about 30 quarts of the purple hulls and about the same of the crowder peas....and they're still making more.

Last year there were a few "pink eye purple hulls" seeds that had gotten mixed in with my purple hull seeds....I didn't know what they were until I asked the man at the feed store where I had bought the seeds.

I've got a few late peas planted. A mix of purple hulls, crowders and for the first time, a few seperate rows of "6 weeks brown eyed peas".

Gonna get out of here in a few minutes and go pick some green limas. Tomorrow it'll be the speckled butter beans and the day after will be ford hook butter beans. I've been disappointed with the ford hook butter beans. Large, beautiful plants, bloom like crazy but haven't produced much.

Cow peas or speckled peas, was at one time a a major crop up here.

Very hard to find them any more, the sheath was a purple spotted pod and the beans inside a light brown.

Last time I found them at a farmers market had to have been in the late 1960's.      The best beans I have ever had, just cook them up in water , add some butter and salt, beats the heck out of any other bean I ever had.

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Re: Purple hull peas
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2012, 01:36:43 PM »
You know the power of suggestion.  Now I gotta go pea.

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Re: Purple hull peas
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2012, 04:42:04 PM »
You know the power of suggestion.  Now I gotta go pea.
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Re: Purple hull peas
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2012, 12:48:23 AM »
Do you cook them like you would say red beans, navy beans, lima beans etc. ?

There's a place right outside my neighborhood, it's a cute little farm place called Old Folks Produce.  I buy okra, big home grown tomatoes, sweet potatoes from them.  I see a sign saying they have purple hull peas. LOTS of purple hull peas.  Not only have I never heard of them, never have seen them but am very curious and want to buy them.  I don't know how to cook them or what they taste like.  LOL, I guess I have seen them now.  God those jars look good.

Can someone explain it to me ?  I would appreciate it.  For almost 4 years I've seen them sell those peas and I really want to try them. I was too embarrassed to ask the lady.   :-)

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Re: Purple hull peas
« Reply #6 on: August 23, 2012, 05:33:38 AM »
You cook them like you cook black eyed peas or pinto beans.

My normal is wash them (and pick out the rocks if they are mechanically harvested) put them in a bowl of water and let them soak a couple of hours. Drain the water off. Put them in a crock pot cover with fresh water. Add a ham hock or salt pork or bacon or whatever meat you prefer for taste and let them slow cook for 6 hours or so. When they are almost done (peas are soft) I add diced onion sliced jalapeño black pepper and salt to taste. Cook them down to let the juice thicken. Serve with cornbread and whatever sides you like. Normally at our house the sides will be collard greens and fried potatoes lol. But that's the normal sides for everything in the south.

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Re: Purple hull peas
« Reply #7 on: August 23, 2012, 07:38:37 AM »
Do you cook them like you would say red beans, navy beans, lima beans etc. ?

There's a place right outside my neighborhood, it's a cute little farm place called Old Folks Produce.  I buy okra, big home grown tomatoes, sweet potatoes from them.  I see a sign saying they have purple hull peas. LOTS of purple hull peas.  Not only have I never heard of them, never have seen them but am very curious and want to buy them.  I don't know how to cook them or what they taste like.  LOL, I guess I have seen them now.  God those jars look good.

Can someone explain it to me ?  I would appreciate it.  For almost 4 years I've seen them sell those peas and I really want to try them. I was too embarrassed to ask the lady.   :-)

If you're asking how to cook them if freshly picked or frozen...here's how I do it.

I put them in a pot, cover them with water and add just a little more water, add a heaping teaspoon of salt, bring to a good boil, then turn down to simmer(slightly or very gently boiling) and let them cook for an hour to an hour and a half.

To add flavor you can skip the salt and add diced salt cured(country) ham.

...or about halt way through the cooking process, fry a couple of strips of bacon until crispy, drain the fat & tear off the fatty tissue, crumble up the lean part of the crispy bacon and throw that in the pot...and add a little salt & pepper to taste....or for the very best, most artery clogging taste ever, throw the grease, fat and all in the pot.
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Re: Purple hull peas
« Reply #8 on: August 23, 2012, 03:48:11 PM »
Thank you very much.  I bought fresh picked ones about an hour ago.   :yahoo:

I'm dying to taste them.  I decided to put bacon in since I already had some defrosted. I am so looking forward to eating those peas.  They look so good in the picture.

Again, TANKS !! 

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Re: Purple hull peas
« Reply #9 on: August 23, 2012, 04:42:11 PM »
I finally gad enough with our famers market.  Damn fresh butter beans were 6.75 a quart.  Back to frozen picsweet.
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Re: Purple hull peas
« Reply #10 on: August 23, 2012, 07:54:42 PM »
They are soooooooo good !!

I just ate peas and rice.  I can't wait for my husband to try them.  He was bragging about the butter beans he had today.  Shoot, I'm going to shame those beans.

Thank you. I'm very pleased with how they came out.

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Re: Purple hull peas
« Reply #11 on: September 01, 2012, 09:00:10 AM »
My wife and I canned our first cooker full of peas last night. We ended up with about 30 pounds worth shelled still yet to get canned. I am rather happy with the way they turned out.


So how long do they last canned like that?