succotash

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

(Narragansett Ind., msickquatash corn boiled whole.) Green Indian corn and beans boiled together. It is a favorite disk wherever these plants are cultivated.


Joel Barlow, in his admirable poem on Hasty-pudding, thus compares succotash with it:

Let the green succotash with thee contend;

Let beans and corn their sweetest juices lend;

Not all the plate, how fam'd soe'er it be,

Can please my palate like a bowl of thee.--Canto I. p. 6.

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