New Year’s Food Traditions Part 3
Courtesy of the Florida Memory Project
Hoppin’ John Recipe
1 cup cow-peas
¼ lb. white bacon
½ cup rice
3 cups water
Salt to taste
Serves 4
Instructions
Boil together cow-peas and bacon cut in slices in three cups water, adding one-half teaspoon salt. When tender, add the separately cooked fluffy rice. Cook a few minutes more. Serve with cornbread. A small onion is sometimes diced and cooked with the peas.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Cross Creek Cookery. (New York: Fireside, 1942)
