Boiled Indian-Meal Pudding

Ingredients

• 1 quart Indian meal
• 1 quart sweet milk
• 3 heaping tablespoonfuls sugar
• 1 teaspoonful salt
• 1 pound suet, freed from fiber and chopped very fine
• 3 eggs, yolks and whites separated, whites to a stiff froth

Method

1. 1

   Heat milk to boiling and remove it from the stove.

2. 2

   Then gradually stir in the meal, suet, and salt (these three ingredients having been previously mixed); when the milk, meal, etc., have become cold, stir into them the beaten yolks and sugar.

3. 3

   Then mix in the whites of the eggs and put the pudding into the bag.

4. 4

   For this pudding fill the bag only half full.

5. 5

   Follow directions for boiled pudding.

6. 6

   Cook five hours, serve hot, and eat with sauce or butter and sugar.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Manual for army cooks (1896) by United States. War Dept. Subsistence Dept., page 80. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BOILED INDIAN-MEAL PUDDING. 1 quart Indian meal. 1 quart sweet milk. 3 heaping tablespoonfuls sugar. 1 teaspoonful salt. i pound suet, freed from fiber and chopped very fine. 3 eggs, yolks and whites separated, whites to a stiff froth

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