paccan

plural paccans

1. alternativeAlternative form of pecan (tree).
2. alternativeAlternative form of pecan (nut).

   A creamy liquid called powcohicoria or "hickory milk" was prepared by the Algonquins: paccan kernels were pounded into small pieces, cast into boiling water, strained and stirred.

   1984, Frederic Rosengarten, Jr., “Pecans”, in The Book of Edible Nuts (Cooking), Walker and Company, →ISBN, page 172, column 1

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   … to send him some paccan nuts. … Jefferson in his reply wrote: "The Paccan nut is, as you conjecture the Illinois nut, ..., and enters into the Botanical name with is Juglans Paccan"

   1944, Thomas Jefferson, edited by Edwin Morris Betts, Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book, Reprint edition (Gardening), UNC Press Books, published 2002, →ISBN, page 118