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Butter beans are the grown-up (and infinitely more delicious) version of a lima bean. Large, creamy, and mild in flavor, they also shine in skillet dinners, particularly those with thicker sauces.
Place the beans in a 9x13-inch or other 3-quart baking dish and add a few smashed and peeled garlic cloves and a couple of sprigs of a woody herb like rosemary, sage, or thyme.
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The rattlesnake bean is an heirloom cultivar of pole bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). The pods are 6 to 8-inches long with purple markings, and the seeds are light brown with brown markings, still visible after cooking. They are named for the snake-like manner in which their pods coil around the vine. [1]
The word 'bean', for the Old World vegetable, existed in Old English, [3] long before the New World genus Phaseolus was known in Europe. With the Columbian exchange of domestic plants between Europe and the Americas, use of the word was extended to pod-borne seeds of Phaseolus, such as the common bean and the runner bean, and the related genus Vigna.
Butter beans — butter beans are used to make the soup bean dish called butter beans. These dried limas are cooked with smoked pork and/or ham until the sauce starts to thicken, hence the name "butter" beans. Like white beans, butter beans represented prosperity and were often prized dishes when served. Butter beans only refers to dried limas.
Bush beans are shorter and better suited than pole beans to containers. Bush beans tend to all produce at once so for a continuous crop you would start new plants from seed every few weeks.
It is a rich source of iron and protein. The black turtle bean is often simply called the black bean (frijoles negros, zaragoza, judía negra, poroto negro, caraota negra, or habichuela negra in Spanish; and feijão preto in Portuguese), although this terminology can cause confusion with at least three other types of black beans.