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Indian Pudding

A historical dessert recipe from Fannie Merritt Farmer's 1910 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.

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Ingredients

  • 5 cups Scalded Milk
  • ⅓ cup Indian Meal
  • ½ cup Molasses
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • 1 teaspoon Ginger

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Method

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    Pour milk slowly on meal, cook in double boiler twenty minutes, add molasses, salt, and ginger; pour into buttered pudding-dish and bake two hours in slow oven; serve with cream. If baked too rapidly it will not whey. Ginger may be omitted.

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Where this recipe comes from

Indian Pudding, from The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910).

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