New Year’s traditions have been celebrated throughout many decades, from popping up a bottle of bubbly to toast the new beginnings or making resolutions to pretend to stick with for the entire year. But for those looking to find good luck and fortune within 2017, it’s time you boil up some black-eyed peas and chow down on the Southern staple.
Why black-eyed peas, one might ask? As the tradition goes, black-eyed peas began as a celebration of Rosh Hashanah about 1,500 years ago before transitioning into a food of prosperous futures back during the 1700s in America. Many adapted the idea that eating poor on New Year’s Eve would result in eating fat for the rest of the year, and peas represented the pennies that would pour in over the next months.
Another explanation for this rather random lucky tradition relies on the fact that like beans, peas expand in cooking and therefore, demonstrate the expansion of wealth one will receive in their near future. Although it seems quite petty to put all faith within the peas, it’s still an everlasting tradition nonetheless for those looking ahead to 2017.
Cook up this scrumptious Southern recipe for black-eyed peas to go from rags to riches in 2017.
Southern Black-Eyed Peas
Prep time: 30 minutes
Cook time: 1 hour
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