Turkey Succotash

Despite a very strange recipe for Delaware succotash containing tomatoes and nutmeg that appeared in The American Heritage Cookbook in 1980, succotash has been an almost sacred blend of corn and lima beans ever since the early settlers in Virginia learned from the Powhatan Indians how to make it. So popular is the stew throughout the South, in fact, that it’s almost always featured even in cafeterias right along with black-eyed peas, stewed tomatoes,