Cooking & Baking
Related: About this forumDefine 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?
PADemD
(4,482 posts)madfloridian
(88,117 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,698 posts)japple
(9,773 posts)eom
Aerows
(39,961 posts)South Louisiana/Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Galileo126
(2,016 posts)(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.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)....do you have one of those adorable R.I. accents?
Galileo126
(2,016 posts)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)I will add zucchini and peppers sometimes.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Corn and Lima beans.
libodem
(19,288 posts)Like corn and Lima beans. Slufferin' sluckitash.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)kentauros
(29,414 posts)Warpy
(110,913 posts)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.
PADemD
(4,482 posts)japple
(9,773 posts)tomatoes (sometimes fresh), brown sugar, baked in the oven, sometimes has cheese on top.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)....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)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