butter bean BrE

Soak the butter beans in cold water for 24 hours before they are needed.

"I just learned to shell butter beans because there was nothing for me to do.

My mother and grandmother would shell peas or butter beans.

I played with my butter beans and tried to imagine what my parents were thinking.

She fainted and fell into the butter beans as the men came running from the front porch.

Or just a health-fad prophet trying to grow organic butter beans?

A long green snake froze us for a second, then it disappeared into the butter bean vines.

The corn, okra, and butter beans had been canned from her garden last August.

A side of butter beans is flavored with smoked ham hocks.

When the boy brought my groceries home, there was a sack of little green butter beans, already shelled."

Here and there a hand-lettered sign offered collards, butter beans, or goats.

"That's where we used to pick butter beans."

The soft snap and crunch of the butter beans and peas stopped.

The peas and butter beans had been shelled.

Big Sam is labeled "fat boy" and "butter bean."

In the North, the butter beans are better known as lima beans.

Emmett said, "In the Army we had ham and butter beans.

It is commonly known as the lima bean or butter bean.

In Yazidism, the eating of lettuce and butter beans is taboo.

So is the time spent listening to Cardinals games on the radio and shelling peas and butter beans.

Place the carrots, sauce, butter beans, Edam and egg yolks in a food processor.

Side dishes include mashed potatoes with cream gravy, fried okra and butter beans.

Like white beans, butter beans represented prosperity and were often prized dishes when served.

Gran and my mother shelled butter beans and peas on the other side of the small porch.