On Monday, January 17, 2000 8:00:00 AM UTC, Lori Houghton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was making a vegetarian soup this weekend and the recipe called to thicken
> the broth with butter beans. Anyone know what these are or where I might
> get them? I live in Ontario, Canada? I used white kidney beans instead and
> they worked great but I would like to try it with butter beans.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lori

Hi Lori.
I'm English. Butter beans look and taste very similar harricot beans (baked beans) only bigger and flatter. Broad beans are very dry in texture but butter are a pleasant all rounder that goes really well in stews :-)
Hope this helped!