
Language Notesīlack-Eyed Peas are sometimes called “Cowpeas”, but more often “Cowpeas” is reserved for a larger grouping of beans. Sliced tomatoes, cucumbers, chow-chow made with green tomatoes or chili sauce made with red, cornbread, buttermilk, iced tea, hot peppers, potato salad, Louisiana hot sauce - all of these are very good.īut the one perfect thing to go with a mess of peas is raw onion sliced in quarter-inch slices.Īny temperature, any season, any place in the world there are few tastier dishes.” There are all kinds of things that go good with blackeyed or purple hull peas. Just be sure they are done, with none of the rank rawness left. One cup of sugar weighs 200 grams but you would need 1. For example, sugar is heavier than flour. Ingredients don’t have the same weight-to-volume ratio. There are flavor advantages to both ways. To convert a recipe from grams to cups is a little more difficult, because grams are a measurement of weight whereas cups is a measurement of volume.

Forty-five minutes you usually get bright, lively peas. Then dump them in the water and let everything cook 45 minutes to an hour. It will take you maybe 10 minutes to get them good and clean. Put water in the pan, put it on the stove and start it cooking. Three or four slices of smoked or sugar cured bacon will do, but you won’t get the flavor you get with a chunk of white salt meat. But first take a knife and slice the pork down to the rind about every half inch so it will cook all the way through. When the peas are shelled you get a big saucepan and put in a piece of salt pork about the size of a package of cigarettes.
#200 grams to cups smoked pork full
The little white cream peas are good, too, but they don’t have quite the full country flavor of blackeyed or purple hulls…. “PURPLE HULLS, SALT PORK - … let’s not forget… the virtues of blackeyed or purple hull peas cooked with salt pork. American southerners also just call the beans “black eyes”. Literature & LoreĪn American deep-south dish made from Black-Eyed Peas, Hoppin’ John, is thought to bring good luck if eaten at New Year. History Notesīlack-Eyed Peas are originally from China, but became very popular in Africa, and through the slave trade were brought to the American deep-south, where they are now synonymous with the regional cooking. to convert many a recipe from metric (which it is. ( 200 grams) of sugar (OR 100 grams sugar and 100 grams of confectioners sugar) 2.

You can freeze fresh Black-Eyed Peas for up to 8 months. Its much easier than trying to convert it in spoons and cups.

Plunge in cold water, drain, package, and freeze. 1 cup (7 oz / 200g) dried = 2 ½ cups (14 oz /400g) boiled and drainedġ pound dried = 450g = 2 ½ cups dried = 5 – 6 cups cookedġ cup (6 oz / 160g) EITHER boiled and drained OR canned and drained = ½ cup (3 oz / 80g) dried, uncooked Storage Hintsįreezing: Pod the peas.
