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angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 06:52 AM Jun 2014

Define Succotash

I think the definition depends on what part of the country you live in...in my family it was tomatoes, bread and sugar, baked...

I have heard that in other communities there are Beans included...

What is your recipe?

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Define Succotash (Original Post) angstlessk Jun 2014 OP
In PA, succotash is corn and green lima beans. PADemD Jun 2014 #1
Yes, that's what we call succotash also. madfloridian Jun 2014 #4
Same in lllinois. greatauntoftriplets Jun 2014 #5
That's the combination here in Georgia. NC, too, where I lived for 25 years. japple Jun 2014 #10
Deep South, that's the same thing here, too Aerows Jun 2014 #11
It's a Narragansett word Galileo126 Jun 2014 #2
tell me... grasswire Jul 2014 #16
Not so much anymore Galileo126 Jul 2014 #18
Not speaking for all of GA, but it's corn and limas here too... Phentex Jun 2014 #3
Same on the Cajun Coast Aerows Jun 2014 #12
I thought it was a bean and corn combo libodem Jun 2014 #6
It suffers. nt msanthrope Jun 2014 #7
G-M-T-A-! kentauros Jun 2014 #14
Corn and beans were essential ingredients Warpy Jun 2014 #8
Your recipe sounds like tomato pudding. PADemD Jun 2014 #9
THat's what we always called it, too. Usually had toasted bread, canned japple Jun 2014 #13
properly... grasswire Jul 2014 #15
My grandma was from the mountains of Virginia angstlessk Jul 2014 #17

Galileo126

(2,016 posts)
2. It's a Narragansett word
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 09:31 AM
Jun 2014

(I'm from Rhode Island, btw.)

Originally, it was "sohquttahhash" - corn and lima beans. But over the years, folks added tomatoes, peppers, and whatever to make a veggie plate.

For me, I go old school - corn and lima beans.



Galileo126

(2,016 posts)
18. Not so much anymore
Wed Jul 2, 2014, 01:48 PM
Jul 2014

I moved to SoCal in 1987. I found out the hard way that (a) people couldn't understand me out West because I talked too fast, and (b) I dropped the letter 'R' in certain words, and put that same letter in words where it doesn't belong.

Example: "I have an idear - lets have some pizzar and sodar for suppah!"

Howevuh.... everytime I go home to Rhodey, my accent comes back in a heartbeat.

I do pahk the cah in the garahge, btw.

Don't get me stahted...



Phentex

(16,330 posts)
3. Not speaking for all of GA, but it's corn and limas here too...
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 09:54 AM
Jun 2014

I will add zucchini and peppers sometimes.

Warpy

(110,913 posts)
8. Corn and beans were essential ingredients
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 02:43 PM
Jun 2014

in upstate NY and New England, close to where it originated in Rhode Island. The Narragansetts used what they called "broken corn," probably a crushed flint corn. I've seen it used with both lima shell beans and baby limas, but likely the Narragansetts used anything they had.

These days there are as many recipes as there are cooks, but the two essential ingredients are corn and beans, which made a reasonably complete protein meal and was at the height of its popularity during the Depression.

I have no clue where yours originated. Whatever it is, it's not succotash.

japple

(9,773 posts)
13. THat's what we always called it, too. Usually had toasted bread, canned
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 07:21 PM
Jun 2014

tomatoes (sometimes fresh), brown sugar, baked in the oven, sometimes has cheese on top.

grasswire

(50,130 posts)
15. properly...
Tue Jul 1, 2014, 06:27 PM
Jul 2014

....an important part of succotash is scraping the milk from the cob while re moving the kernels. Another important part, to New Englanders, is using shell beans and especially cranberry beans. My Connecticut grandmother scoffed at limas in succotash.

Succotash dates back to Plimoth and the first settlers. Then, it was made with corned beef and and potatoes and fowl included! "M'sickquattash"

So, fresh corn, cranberry beans, butter, salt, pepper, cream.

Mmmm.

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
17. My grandma was from the mountains of Virginia
Tue Jul 1, 2014, 07:00 PM
Jul 2014

I wonder why she got it so wrong? Or just maybe she did not know what to call her tomato concoction, so she just called it something she had heard?

The reason I asked, is because I thought her succotash was different than what I had heard...and it seems...she was wrong in calling her tomato concoction succotash.

Thanks folks

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