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From: Kathie <>
Subject: Hasty Pudding
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 14:13:23 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <200102091300.f19D0Nr15424@lists2.rootsweb.com>


I'm sending out this recipe because of the reference to
Hasty Pudding in a Christmas Song; and not that I
necessarily expect any of us to cook it, but I
did not really know what it was before reading this!
Also,
over five hundred: Civil War Recipes can be read at:
http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/cookbook.htm
This is one of the breakfast recipes,
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HASTY PUDDING

Water
Corn or rye meal
Salt
Milk or molasses, optional

Boil water, a quart, three pints, or two quarts, according to the
size of your family; sift your meal, stir five or six spoonfuls of it

thoroughly into a bowl of water; when the water in the kettle boils,
pour into it the contents of the bowl; stir it well, and let it boil
up thick; put in salt to suit your own taste, then stand over the
kettle, and sprinkle in meal, handful after handful, stirring it very

thoroughly all the time, and letting it boil between whiles. When it
is so thick that you stir it with great difficulty, it is about
right. It takes about half an hour's cooking. Eat it with milk or
molasses. Either Indian meal or rye meal may be used. If the system
is in a restricted state, nothing can be better than rye hasty
pudding and West India molasses. This diet would save many a one the
horrors of dyspepsia.
From The American Frugal Housewife by Mrs. Child, 1833
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Wonder if the Mrs. Child mentioned above is kin to Julia? hmmmmm


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