Succotash

Ingredients

• Take small white beans
• add the corn
• add butter
• add salt
• add pepper

Method

1. 1

   Soak beans for 12 hours, boil until half done, then add corn and cook until soft.

2. 2

   Add butter, salt, and pepper.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The hearthstone; or, Life at home (1883) by Laura C. Holloway, page 293. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

succotash, cut it from the cobs, and boil it with Lima beans and a few slices of salt pork. It requires boiling from fifteen to thirty minutes, according to its age. 458 THE hearthstone; or, life at home. To Cook Egg-plant [Mrs. Taylor's recipe). — Peel it, cut it in slices about half an inch thick; spread salt over each slice, putting one slice on top of each other; let it lie two hours, then wash the salt off of it in cold water, dry it with a towel. Beat two or three eggs, dip the egg-plant in the &^^, then dip each slice in rolled cracker ; have a round pot with boiling hot lard in it, and drop in the slices of egg-plant — just as you would fry doughnuts. Egg-plant. — Cut the egg-plant in slices an inch thick, and let it lie for several hours in salted water to remove the bitter taste. To fry it, put the slices in the frying-pan with a small quantity of butter, and turn them when one side is done. Be sure that they are thoroughly cooked. Stuffed egg-plant is sometimes preferred to fried. Peel the plant whole, cut it in two, and let it lie in salted water. Then scoop out the inside of the plant, chop it up fine, mixing crumbs of bread, salt and butter with it ; fry it, return it to the hol- low egg-plant, join the cut pieces together, and let them bake a while in the oven. Baked Egg-plant. — Boil them whole ten minutes ; then cut them in half, and take out the seed. Make a stuffing of bread, butter, pep- per, salt and one c^'g ; close them, tie them with a string, put water in the pan, let them cook slowly half an hour, basting them with butter; thicken the gravy, and put it over them on the dish. Succotash. — Take small white beans, soak them twelve hours, and then put them on to boil. When half done, add the corn, and let them boil until soft, when add butter, salt and pepper

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