Creamed Peas Recipe - The Cookie Rookie® (2024)

FAQs

What are cream 12 peas? ›

Within the thin green pods, are 12 to 14 medium, creamy-white “peas.” Cream peas are slightly flattened and oval, and look more like beans than they do peas, without a visible 'eye'. Cream peas have a mild, sweet and nutty flavor and a soft, creamy texture.

Sweet and tender lady peas remain creamy white or light green even after they have been cooked. And unlike other field peas, lady peas (also called Lady Cream peas) produce a clear, not cloudy, potlikker. True to their name, lady peas are said to have a more delicate flavor.

The Lady Cream Pea Story

Field peas, crowder peas, cream peas (along with blackeye peas) are all part of a larger species of beans commonly called “cowpeas” or “Southern peas.” Despite their names, none of these varieties is actually a pea.

Mississippi Cream Cowpeas. This bush-type plant produces high yields of light-colored cowpeas. This cool-weather plant has 7" long green pods with creamy white peas. The peas change to straw color when dried. You can produce two crops when planted early.

Lady Cream Peas are a type of cowpea. They have no color and, when cooked, they yield a clear pot liquor. They have a sweet flavor and creamy texture and are featured in Southern dishes.

Peas: Pick peas in the morning at least every other day for maximum harvest and crispest texture. Shelling Peas: Pick them when the pods are rounded and the peas have filled the pod but before they grow too large and tough.

In general, fresh peas can last in the refrigerator for about 3 to 5 days.

There are three types of Southern peas: crowder, cream, and black-eyed. Crowders have a robust flavor, cream peas are more mild, and the flavor of black-eyed peas is somewhere in between.

Camellia brand has a store locator for it's products and the OP was able to find the lady cream peas at a location close to her. For anyone who isn't able to find them, butter peas are a good option. I've seen them fresh, frozen, and canned.

Oh, yes, at least if they're freshly picked. They're delicious. (When my cousin and I were ten or twelve years old and were sent to the garden to pick peas, we loved to sneak some of the pods for ourselves, squeeze them open, and eat the peas out of the pods right there fresh off the vines.

Are cream peas the same as white acre peas? ›

White Acre peas are considered a cream or semi-crowder pea, because the seeds are somewhat crowded in the pod, but not nearly as much as other crowder pea varieties. They are also commonly referred to as field peas or cowpeas and are related to black-eyed, pink-eyed, and purple-hulled peas.

Lady peas—as well as all legumes—pack essential nutrients such as heart-healthy fiber, protein, antioxidants, and more. Incorporating dried or fresh legumes into your diet can help you stay full and satisfied throughout the day, which is key if you're trying to maintain or lose weight.

Mushy peas have occasionally been referred to as "Yorkshire caviar".

A pease pudding is made from cooking yellow split peas into a lovely soft paste-like consistency. The dish is not unlike the famous mushy peas, also much loved in the North and made with dried marrowfat peas—though you would never fry mushy peas, as they are too soft and do not hold their shape.