Soak the butter beans in cold water for 24 hours before they are needed.

I just learned to shell butter beans because there was nothing for me to do.

The corn, okra, and butter beans had been canned from her garden last August.

When the boy brought my groceries home, there was a sack of little green butter beans, already shelled.

Or just a health-fad prophet trying to grow organic butter beans?

My mother and grandmother would shell peas or butter beans.

She fainted and fell into the butter beans as the men came running from the front porch.

I played with my butter beans and tried to imagine what my parents were thinking.

In the North, the butter beans are better known as lima beans.