Add six ears of green corn, splitting through the kernels, one pint butter beans and six large tomatoes chopped fine.
Any green bean may be used in this way, lima and butter beans being the nicest.
Instead of always using butter beans, or haricot beans, as directed in one of these menus, lentils or split peas can be substituted.
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The two halves of the trap look like a large, openedbutterbeanwith long spines around the edges.
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Fish, eggs and butter beans are preferable forms in which to supply protein, the class of food which pre dominates in meat.
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Butter beans and similar produce are not included within the terms of this very comprehensive question.
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In that area, lima beans and butter beans are seen as two distinct types of beans.
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Like white beans, butter beans represented prosperity and were often prized dishes when served.
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Water vole meat was one of the main ingredients of early paellas, along with eel and butter beans.
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Butter beans only refers to dried limas.
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