Baked Indian-Pudding

Ingredients

• one cupful of yellow Indian meal
• one cupful of molasses
• a quart of boiling milk
• a level teaspoonful of salt
• a tablespoonful of ground cinnamon or ginger
• a heaping tablespoonful of butter
• a pint of cold milk

Method

1. 1

   Mix yellow Indian meal and molasses, pour in boiling milk gradually, then add salt, cinnamon or ginger, and butter.

2. 2

   Let cool, then put into an earthen pudding-dish, pour cold milk on top without stirring, and bake for three hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Corson's practical American cookery and household management (1885) by Juliet Corson, page 248. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BAKED nWIAN-FUDDING. Mix together one cupful each of yellow Indian meal and molasses, pour over them a quart of boiling milk, mixing it in gradually ; then add a level teaspoonful of salt, a tablespoon- ful of ground cinnamon or ginger, and a heaping table- spoonful of butter, and let these ingredients cool ; when they are quite cold, put them into an earthen pudding-dish, set it in a moderate oven, and pour upon the top a pint of cold milk

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