I got this recipe from my Sister-In-Law I asked her why she hasn’t given it to before now she said she just found it in her old recipes stuck between some pages. She has made this a number of times when her boys were babies and that’s been about 57 years ago.
And Streak-of Lean is nothing more than salted pork it is so salty that you have to rinse it off under very hot water. All Veggies are fresh Summer. In the winter months use frozen veggies except for italian tomatoes use large can’s. And fresh cabbage, potatoes,onion and chicken stock mixed with part of the water.
2 cups Butter Beans (Lima Beans)
2 cups black eyed peas or other like purple hull
2 cups green beans
2 cups yellow squash or other squash
2 cups corn cut off the cob
2 cups tomatoes with skins removed
2 cups sweet onion, chopped
2 cups green English peas
2 cups cut okra
2 cups chopped green or red cabbage
2 cups chopped potatoes
1 square salted pork, rinsed and scored just about to the bottom of rind
6 quarts of water or more if cooks down to much
Black pepper to taste
Boil the salt pork until just about done. Add rest of ingredients let come to a rolling boil them let it simmer for about 3 hours, add the cabbage and potatoes the last 20 minutes of cooking, then add the cut okra the last 10 minutes of cooking. The salted pork makes this soup salty DO NOT ADD ANY SALT.
Let cool and refrigerate over night. Take out the next day and skim off all of the fat that has risen to the top. Heat and enjoy with some crackling corn bread !!!
If you like it hot add some hot peppers (of your choice) to it while cooking.