tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885320105550742793.post5196752874255448681..comments2024-03-28T05:28:46.610-04:00Comments on NEW ENGLAND FOLKLORE: Indian Pudding!Peter Muisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05939949561996555115noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885320105550742793.post-80244069088707274442020-09-27T10:27:17.643-04:002020-09-27T10:27:17.643-04:00Fun post Peter, although it got me hungry!Fun post Peter, although it got me hungry!Rich Clabaughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15915392348153309406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885320105550742793.post-22408016843178002442013-05-25T15:07:02.887-04:002013-05-25T15:07:02.887-04:00Clark Cooke House in Newport, RI, makes an excelle...Clark Cooke House in Newport, RI, makes an excellent Indian Pudding...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12757585562919649780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885320105550742793.post-4360604054803625962010-12-03T10:15:25.059-05:002010-12-03T10:15:25.059-05:00MICROWAVE INDIAN PUDDING ---
which could be called...MICROWAVE INDIAN PUDDING ---<br />which could be called<br />Population Displacement Pudding<br /><br />“It's sort of like pumpkin pie, without the pumpkin. And without the pie.” - a description of Indian Pudding to a young relative at a Thanksgiving dinner<br /><br />A personal note: In honor of our New England ancestors, I served Indian Pudding at our family's Thanksgiving dinner this year. There's a LOT of stirring involved. After the holiday I wondered if someone had developed a microwave adaptation with LESS stirring, and I found one at Nancy's Kitchen. [This recipe is the same as the one you link to in your post.]<br /><br />About the traditional, but anachronistic, name of the dish: The recipe was adapted from the English “hasty pudding”. What's “Indian” about it is the cornmeal, formerly called “Indian meal”. The original inhabitants of North America had neither dairy products nor molasses, although they had developed maple syrup as an ingenious indigenous equivalent for the latter. The molasses used by the colonists was produced on West Indian plantations by the unpaid labor of involuntary emigrants from Africa, who were found to be more suited to such work than the people in place there when Europeans arrived. Anyone wanting a new name reflecting a contextualized historical and multicultural perspective could call it Population Displacement Pudding.<br /><br />With best wishes,<br />Fannie Farmer (Mrs.)<br /><br />[obviously not my real name. but one I use to post comments and recipes at <b>Fafblog!</b>, the surrealistic satire site - I was born and educated in the Boston area, but have lived elsewhere for decades]<br /><br /><b></b>Fannie Farmer (Mrs.)http://fafblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/not-dead-yet.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885320105550742793.post-87027143094758196692009-11-26T09:17:39.538-05:002009-11-26T09:17:39.538-05:00Robyn - I agree with you about the Onion. Since th...Robyn - I agree with you about the Onion. Since they're a satirical site they want to get a laugh from everything, but they probably discourage their readers from trying new food they might actually like. After all, who doesn't like brown bread?<br /><br />Thanks for the comment, and enjoy Thanksgiving up north!Peter Muisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05939949561996555115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885320105550742793.post-84107518432612504742009-11-26T09:15:05.900-05:002009-11-26T09:15:05.900-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Peter Muisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05939949561996555115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885320105550742793.post-82343037417683733902009-11-24T12:30:51.041-05:002009-11-24T12:30:51.041-05:00Seriously, and the Onion's review of brown bre...Seriously, and the Onion's review of brown bread? I pretty much had my monitor by the shoulders, shaking it while screaming "You're doing it wrong!" It seems their method for taste testing products involves disregarding all directions on the can and eating it cold with a spoon.<br /><br />I recently exported myself from Maine to Canada, so it's not as rough as moving to California or something, but people up here still have a lot of learning to do. I'm insisting on celebrating American Thanksgiving, and Indian pudding will be the only dessert.Robynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02552392076201087429noreply@blogger.com