succotash

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She knew just where the succotash, the cake-boxes, the clothes-lines, were kept in each of the grocery-stores, and on market Saturdays she could wait on herself.

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  1. noun A stew consisting of kernels of corn, lima beans, and tomatoes.

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  • Dusty cans of pork and beans and succotash were the only things in the cupboard. —  Lippman, Laura - [Tess Monaghan 04] - In Big Trouble
  • Try them tossed into a summer succotash or served alongside a plate of Middle Eastern-style —  Miss Ginsu
  • It's actually a dish known as succotash, which in its purest state is a simple dish of lima beans and corn. —  Grist - the Latest from Grist
  • Add enough hot milk to moisten, and cook ten minutes When succotash is desired, add to a pint of corn cooked as above the same amount of cooked and seasoned shelled beans CORN PUDDING One dozen ears of corn, two eggs, one kitchen spoonful butter, one-half teaspoonful salt, one tablespoonful sugar CORN PUDDING To one can of corn, one pint milk, three eggs, two tablespoonful melted butter, one tablespoonful white sugar, pepper and salt to taste. —  The Community Cook Book
  • Our word "succotash" we now apply to corn cooked with beans. —  Home Life in Colonial Days
 

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  1. Narragansett msíckquatash, boiled whole-kernel corn.

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  1. Also succotash, suckatash, succatush; from American Indian (Narragansett msickquatash).
 

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/ˈsəkətæʃ/
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