[Sca-cooks] Southern Peas (Was Pease Porridge and Field Peas)

[Pat]

>From http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/hil-20.html
 
Southern peas originated in India in prehistoric times and moved to Africa, then to America. In India Southern peas are known by 50 common names and in the United States are called "Field peas", "Crowder peas", "Cowpeas" and "blackeyes", but Southern peas is the preferred name.   by Douglas C. Sanders, Extension Horticultural Specialist, Department of HorticulturalScience, North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, North Carolina State University
 
>From http://www.wowpages.com/nga/EDIT/Articles/sopeas.qua
 
Botanically speaking, southern peas (Vigna unguiculata) are not in the same family as beans or peas. These annual legumes were originally brought to North America by African slaves in the late 1600s or early 1700s. Here, they were first important as an animal forage and green manure crop. But early African-Americans knew something that most of their white countrymen did not: Southern peas are a great-tasting and nutritious human food.  By Raymond Trull.
 
THOSE are the field peas I know, found in cans on the shelves of Southern groceries.
Now, what is the scientific name of the field peas you were talking about?
 
 
 

 
 


Pat Griffin
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