Old-Fashioned Creamed Peas Recipe - These Old Cookbooks (2024)

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Find out how to make Old-Fashioned Creamed Peas with this simple, step by step recipe.

Peas in a creamy white sauce is a new way to get your kids (and husbands) to eat this healthy green vegetable. You can make this cream peas recipe in a jiffy with only butter, flour, half and half, salt, pepper and peas.

Simple Creamed Peas Recipe

Do you have a hard time getting your family to eat their vegetables? The buttery white sauce on these Old-Fashioned Creamed Peas will have them asking for seconds. This recipe uses frozen peas and five other simple ingredients to create this classic creamed vegetable side dish.

This cream peas recipe may just be our new favorite behind our Old-Fashioned Pea Salad, Bacon Cheddar Pea Salad, and Creamy Dill Pea Salad.

Creamed peas remind us of visits with our Aunt Peggy growing up.Barbara had never had peas this way (and honestly didn’t really like them at the time).One weekend, Aunt Peggy whipped up creamed peas with our lunch, and she was hooked. Barbara began requesting them to the point that Peggy just knew to make them when she was coming over.

Old-Fashioned Creamed Peas Recipe

She has been on a hunt for sometime to find a written recipe for creamed peas with frozen peas.At last, she turned to her copy of America’s Cook Book. Now this book is definitely old fashioned. It doesn’t have pictures, and it reads like a regular book.We bet there are over 1000 recipes total, and most recipes has a variety of versions and modifications.

Barbara started her search in the vegetable chapter under the peas section.It was here she found a recipe for boiled peas but it referred her back to the creamed vegetables page.When she got to this page, it sent her to the page for a Cream Sauce.So she flipped to this page which then sent her to the page for a basic white sauce. Sounds tricky, but the recipe was spot on.

She made this for lunch for her boys (aka her husband and 2 year old son). In all honesty, her husband, Kevin, doesn’t like peas.But guess what, he loved these old-fashioned creamed peas. And he ate two helpings.Her 2-year-old can be very spotty on what vegetables he eats as well, but he devoured them too.

Ingredients for Creamed Peas

• Frozen Green Peas
• Salted Water
• Butter
• All Purpose Flour
• Half and Half
• Salt and Black Pepper

How to make old-fashioned creamed peas with frozen peas

Step By Step Instructions

1. Cook a bag of frozen peas according the directions on the back. We prefer the stove top version as follows. Boil a small amount of water in a saucepan. Once it comes to a boil, pour it over the frozen peas, and let cook for 3 to 5 minutes.
2. In a medium saucepan, melt butter. Add flour and stir until smooth and then for 30 seconds more to remove raw flour taste.
3. Gradually add in half and half, stirring constantly with a whisk.
4. Continue to cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until it comes to a boil. Cook for 3 additional minutes.
5. Add salt and pepper.
6. Drain the peas, and add the white sauce.
7. Stir to incorporate and cover until peas are hot and bubbly (this only takes a couple minutes). Taste and add more salt and pepper if needed.

Storage Instructions

Let leftovers cool completely. Store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to a week.

For the full recipe and ingredient list for old-fashioned cream peas, scroll to the bottom of this post.

Recipe FAQs

• An easy way to cook frozen peas is to cover with boiling salted water for 3 – 5 minutes until perfectly tender.
• Season these frozen creamy peas with salt and pepper to taste.
• Substitute heavy whipping cream for half and half, if desired.
• To make a lower-fat version of creamy peas, use fat free half and half.
• Substitute margarine for butter, if needed.
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Recipe Variations

• Add pearl onions for a classic side dish.
• Sautéed mushrooms are another delicious addition.
• For more flavor, add onion powder and/or garlic powder.
• Use heavy cream or whole milk instead of half and half.
• Stir in bits of ham or fried bacon.
• Garnish with parsley.

Old Fashioned Vegetable Recipes

Want to try other creamed vegetable recipes? We have you covered. Check out some of our favorites below.

Creamed Peas and Potatoes

Creamed Peas with Canned Peas

Crock Pot Cheesy Creamed Corn

Creamed Spinach

Creamy Cabbage

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