Indian corn and beans boiled together.
1792. [The Indian] suckatash, which is a mixture of corn and beans boiled [is] much used, and very palatable.—Jeremy Belknap, ‘New Hampshire,’ iii. 93. (Italics in the original.)
1793.
| Let the green succotash with thee contend, | |
| Let beans and corn their sweetest juices blend. | |
Joel Barlow, ‘The Hasty-Pudding,’ p. 7 (Hallowell, 1815). |
1816. As our government is at amity with all red tribes, the Great Father, or president, often has the complacency of eating succatras with his visiting Sagamores.—Henry C. Knight (‘Arthur Singleton’), ‘Letters from the South and West,’ p. 40 (Boston, 1824).
1818. Here sat a Yankee from Weathersfield, who called for onions and fair sagatash.—Mass. Spy, Aug. 26: from the National Advocate.
1832. Suckatash they [the Indians] made from corn and beans mixed together and boiled.—Watson, ‘Historic Tales of New York,’ p. 55. (Italics in the original.)
1853. O, have they not a sublime time—a beautiful dish of suckertash. What a uniform course they have taken!—Elder J. M. Grant at the Mormon Tabernacle, Aug. 7: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ i. 346.
1855. Here, in the autumn, could be seen, pendent from the posts to which they were fastened at either end, weighty strings of quartered apples, of sweet corn boiled on the cob for winter succotash, and of gaudy red peppers, drying in the sun.—C. W. Philleo, ‘Twice Married,’ Putnam’s Mag., v. 315 (March).
1857. I should never be afraid of being tired with eating sucketash so long as I had room for a single spoonful.—Brigham Young, June 7: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ iv. 342.
1862. When we come to the things of God, I had rather not have them mixed up with amusement like a dish of sucotash.—The same, Feb. 9: id., ix. 194.
1869. The Indian dish denominated succotash,—to wit, a soup of corn and beans, with a generous allowance of salt pork.—Mrs. Stowe, ‘Oldtown Folks,’ ch. 15.
