Fruit Pudding, Corn Meal

Original Recipe

Take a pint of hot milk and stir in sifted Indian meal till the batter is stiff; add a teaspoonful of salt and half a cup of molasses, adding a teaspoonful of soda dissolved; then stir in a pint of whortleberries or chopped sweet apple; tie in a cloth that has been wet, and leave room for it to swell, or put in a pudding-pan and tie a cloth over; boil three hours; the water must boil when it is put in; you can use cranberries and sweet sauce.

Ingredients

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  • 1 pint of hot milk and stir in sifted indian meal till the batter is stiff
  • 1 teaspoonful of salt and half a cup of molasses
  • 1 teaspoonful of soda dissolved
  • 1 pint of whortleberries or chopped sweet apple
  • 1 cloth that has been wet
  • 1 cloth over
  • 3 hours

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Instructions

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    Take a pint of hot milk and stir in sifted Indian meal till the batter is stiff; add a teaspoonful of salt and half a cup of molasses, adding a teaspoonful of soda dissolved; then stir in a pint of whortleberries or chopped sweet apple; tie in a cloth that has been wet, and leave room for it to swell, or put in a pudding-pan and tie a cloth over; boil three hours; the water must boil when it is put in; you can use cranberries and sweet sauce.

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Recipe by Mrs. F.L. Gillette from The White House Cook Book (1887)