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2
cups fresh shelled butter or lima beans
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Kosher salt
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2
large ears fresh corn (about 2 cups)
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2
tablespoons unsalted butter
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Freshly ground black pepper
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1/4
cup heavy cream
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1/4
cup minced country ham
1. Place butter beans in large saucepan. Cover with water; add about 1 teaspoon kosher salt. Bring to boiling. Skim surface until clear. Cook, partially covered, 30 to 40 minutes, until tender. Strain beans into sieve. Set aside.
2. Shuck corn. Using clean terry cloth kitchen towel gently rub corn to remove silks. Using sharp knife, cut corn kernels from cobs.
3. In large skillet heat butter over medium-high heat until melted and foaming. Add corn. Lightly season with salt and pepper, stirring to coat corn in butter. Cook 1 to 2 minutes. Add beans. Lightly season with salt and pepper. Cook 1 minute more, taking care not to overcook corn and beans.
4. Add cream and ham. Cook just until heated through and slightly reduced. Season to taste. Makes 8 (1/2 cup) servings.
- Note If fresh beans are not available, substitute 2 cups frozen baby lima beans. Cook beans according to package directions.
- Servings Per Recipe 8,
- Calories 141,
- Protein (gm) 5,
- Carbohydrate (gm) 18,
- Fat, total (gm) 6,
- Cholesterol (mg) 20,
- Saturated fat (gm) 4,
- Dietary Fiber, total (gm) 3,
- Vitamin A (IU) 243,
- Vitamin C (mg) 4,
- Sodium (mg) 246,
- Calcium (DV %) 20,
- Iron (DV %) 1,
- Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet
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My mother's baby lima beans would have been home grown and dried. The corn would have been dried--cut fresh off the cob, sun dried on outside cellar doors and finished in kitchen stove oven heated with a wood fire. A lot of good foods came from that oven. All our vegetable dishes that used cream had our own, from a small Holstein herd. The corn was from a section of the farm we called Corn Hill. Dried corn cooked and served with cream makes a good side vegetable dish to a meal for farm workers
4/19/2010 09:57:01 AM Report AbuseRecipe sounds right and good. Until I was in NC for five years I thought that was the recipe. They used green string beans -cut. Not the succotash I grew up with! what I grew up with.
4/19/2010 09:40:05 AM Report Abuse