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My mom always made creamed peas from scratch. I've never seen them for sale already prepared.
They are super easy to make, have you looked for a recipe?
They are a snap to make: just make a basic white sause and add the peas, fresh or frozen, but I don't think many people use fresh anymore. My mom did, and we would usually have small, new potatoes mixed in as well or the tiny pearl onions.
When I moved to north FL, i would say "peas" and people would think black eyed, white acre, zipper, etc which I had never heard of, except for black eyed. When I replied, "no, green peas" the response was "oh you mean English peas." I had never heard that terminology before.
I tried to grow green peas there several times but they do not like the heat. So I tried planting them in the fall garden and had no better luck. To me, black eyed peas and their cousins taste like the sandy dirt they grow in. Maybe they taste better if grown in non-sandy soil. I tried "peas" cooked by several friends but never acquired a taste for them.
-izzy
When I moved to north FL, i would say "peas" and people would think black eyed, white acre, zipper, etc which I had never heard of, except for black eyed. When I replied, "no, green peas" the response was "oh you mean English peas." I had never heard that terminology before.
I tried to grow green peas there several times but they do not like the heat. So I tried planting them in the fall garden and had no better luck. To me, black eyed peas and their cousins taste like the sandy dirt they grow in. Maybe they taste better if grown in non-sandy soil. I tried "peas" cooked by several friends but never acquired a taste for them.
-izzy
In Texas green peas are always called English peas.
I was inspired by another pea thread here to look up some recipes just a minute ago, and I happened across a few recipes calling for English peas, one was by Paula Deen. Couldn't understand what they meant by English peas, and now I understand the reference, so thanks!
Glad you did this thread - I learned something and have something new to try out! Hope you find your cream peas.
Why are cream peas impossible to find? Any suggestions on where to buy them??
"Creamed peas" is a prepared dish of peas in white sauce (a bechamel or roux).
All you do is buy a package of frozen peas (not cream peas..just peas), make a roux, toss the frozen peas in the roux, and simmer til the peas are hot.
A roux is just butter cooked with flour, then milk added and stirred constantly until the clumpy flour/butter combo thickens the milk into a sauce of -almost- pudding consistency (but slightly more liquidy).
I found "Lady Cream Peas" in a google search - a type of southern cowpea that doesn't really look all that much like a sweet pea - definitely not the same thing as "cream peas" for which there exists no variety, and is just a misspelling of cream*ED* peas, the prepared dish. Thus ends the mystery!
Pictsweet has frozen white acre cream (may be "creme") peas. I think they are the same. I have never seen them at our stores here in TN. I have been looking since I saw this thread.
I sure would like to have a plateful, seasoned with ham, with cornbread on the side. Add some greens and you have a good meal.
You can also buy seed for Lady Cream Peas.
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