Indian Pudding: First, peel three medium-sized Indians...

In New England, Indian Pudding is as essential a part of Thanksgiving dinner as Pumpkin or Squash Pie. Great stuff, if you like the flavor of molasses. Not just for Thanksgiving.

It's called "Indian" because it is made with corn (maize) meal - the staple food of North American Indians.

Simple rustic ingredients. No sugar? You use molasses. No flour? You use corn meal. The only trick is to make sure it is neither too firm nor too runny. Serve warm.

Here's a bit of the history of this dessert, with a good recipe.

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I like Indian pudding.
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#1 jappy on 2009-11-19 17:34 (Reply)

Corn and Maize are two dramatically different crops.
I dont have to describe what an ear of corn looks like.

With maize there is one ear per plant.
The ear is dead center at the top of the plant.
The grain on an ear of maize consists of individual grains, each one supported on a straw, and having the appearance in size shape and color of a BB (as in Daisy BB gun)
Maize is not eaten by humans.

Why do you insist that corn and maize are the same?

#2 bgarrett on 2009-11-19 17:35 (Reply)

Maize (Zea mays L. ssp. mays, pronounced /?me?z/; also known in most English speaking countries as corn), is a grass domesticated in Mesoamerica and subsequently spread throughout the American continents. After European contact with the Americas in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, maize spread to the rest of the world.

Maize is the most widely grown crop in the Americas (332 million metric tons annually in the United States alone). Hybrid maize, because of its high grain yield as a result of heterosis ('hybrid vigor'), is preferred by farmers over conventional varieties. While some maize varieties grow up to 7 metres (23 ft) tall,[1] most commercially grown maize has been bred for a standardized height of 2.5 metres (8.2 ft). Sweet corn is usually shorter than field-corn varieties.

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#2.1.1.1.1.1.1 jappy on 2009-11-20 08:29 (Reply)

Maize and sunflour
http://rhhardin.blogspot.com/2010/09/cornbread-makings.html

#3 rhhardin (Link) on 2010-11-06 13:06 (Reply)

Yucky...

#4 Leag on 2010-11-06 15:25 (Reply)

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