Delaware Creamed Succotash

Despite there being a small town in Rhode Island named Succotash Point, Southerners have always claimed that the corn-and–lima bean dish called sukguttahash by the early Powhatan Indians originated in seventeenth-century Virginia and eventually spread throughout the South. Subsequently, each state or region developed its own style of succotash, one of the most distinctive being this creamed Delaware version, made with tomatoes and nutmeg. My own mother in North Carolina, of course, w