Swamp cabbage Swamp cabbage is made from the soft leaf bud of the cabbage palm tree. This is available canned in stores. Slice the bud into small pieces and put in a cooking pot with water, pork and salt and pepper. Cook in a slow boil for about two hours. Drain off water and serve.
Some chefs add orange juice as flavoring.
Until it closed in the 1980s, Keen s Grocery Store in Vero Beach sold sections of palm trunk with the leaf bud in it. Fla. Country butter beans Put three cups shelled green lima beans in pot and add boiling water until beans are barely able to float off the bottom. Cover, bring to boil and then lower to a simmer. Cook for 30 minutes. Simmer 10 minutes.