Butter beans only refers to dried limas.
Water vole meat was one of the main ingredients of early paellas, along with eel and butter beans.
Like white beans, butter beans represented prosperity and were often prized dishes when served.
In that area, lima beans and butter beans are seen as two distinct types of beans.
Butter beans and similar produce are not included within the terms of this very comprehensive question.
Fish, eggs and butter beans are preferable forms in which to supply protein, the class of food which pre dominates in meat.
The two halves of the trap look like a large, opened butter bean with long spines around the edges.
Instead of always using butter beans, or haricot beans, as directed in one of these menus, lentils or split peas can be substituted.
