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Uncle Albert, Juneteenth & Butter Beans

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[img_assist|fid=4298|thumb=1|alt=Homesick Texan - Texas Shots]In a contemplative post, Lisa of the Homesick Texan manages to connect family, Texas history, linguistics, children's literature and yes, a recipe.

"On June 18, 1878, my great-great-great-uncle Albert was sitting on the front porch of his lovely Austin home, Las Ventanas, surveying the bounty of his garden. In a letter to his dear wife, who was visiting kinfolk in Tennessee, he wrote that the honeysuckle and roses were in full bloom and that there was 'a good many butter beans on the vines, in fact the vines are loaded.'" continue reading ~ Homesick Texan

Contributing Editor Alanna Kellogg keeps an Alphabet of Vegetables but learned from this post that butter beans are also called you'll have to check! which make a mighty good hummus.

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Lovebabz 5 pts

I always knew that food...good food transcends race and class. It is amazing how food links cultures, communities and families. I love lima beans, my Momma made them with fatback/salt pork, almost stew like, served with baked sweet potaoes/yams, with mac and cheese and of course collard greens, mustard greens and potato salad and slap your granny cornbread!. HONEY HUSH, that was some good eatin' I love the mixing of food, history, culture and geography. hhmmm I wonder if a book is in order--take your cue AK and think on that or rather eat on that.

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www.lovebabz.blogspot.com ( http://www.lovebabz.blogspot.com ) my personal journey of my everyday life...I couldn't make this stuff if I tried.

Susan 5 pts

Mmmm, I love butter beans and eat them almost every week during the summer. Thanks for the link to that post. Amazingly wide-ranging!

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