29 May 2017

succotash

[suhk-uh-tash]

noun

1. a cooked dish of kernels of corn mixed with shell beans, especially lima beans, and, often, with green and sweet red peppers.

Origin of succotash

Narragansett

1745-1755, Americanism; < Narragansett (E spelling) msíckquatash boiled whole kernels of corn (cognate with Eastern Abenaki (French spelling) mesikoutar, equivalent to Proto-Algonquian *mes- whole + *-i·nkw- eye (hence, kernel) + *-ete·- be cooked (+ -w-) + *-ali plural suffix)

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Historical Examples

Kornlet and dried Lima beans may be made into succotash in a similar manner.
Science in the Kitchen.
Mrs. E. E. Kellogg

By following in his footsteps we learned about succotash and hominy.
Cobb’s Bill-of-Fare
Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb

I am reminded of the story of an old Indian chief who was invited to some great dinner where the first course was ” succotash.”
Birds and Poets
John Burroughs

Our word ” succotash ” we now apply to corn cooked with beans.
Home Life in Colonial Days
Alice Morse Earle

Anagram

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On this day

29 May 1874 – birth of Gilbert Keith Chesterton (otherwise known as G.K. Chesterton), English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer and Christian apologist. Died 14 June 1936.

29 May 1917 – birthday of John F. Kennedy. 35th president of the United States. Assassinated 22 November 1963.

29 May 1953 – Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepalese sherpa, Tenzing Norgay, become the first men to reach the summit of Mt Everest.