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Can the Indian pudding be frozen after baking and cooled?
I have had Indian Pudding; delicious; Molasses is very high in the mineral Iron~
Looking forward to trying out this very straightforward recipe not too hard but with the double boiler step. Tempering the eggs is a great idea. Corn is toothy in coarser state, a nice texture, some recipes use different pulverizations. This is similar to a half-a recipe I saw on the road show, a hand-scrawled Indian Pudding recipe on an index card, ‘“abstracted” from Rombauer’ by Georgia O’Keefe. I came looking for the remainder, and I bet this is pretty close, even improved, and simply. Btw, in the small trove of autographs of hers, the recipe was the most valuable. Just sayin’…y’ never know!
One step I added, and you should always do this when adding eggs to a hot mixture, I slowly added a cup of the hot mixture to the beaten eggs. Then, added the egg mixture to the pot. This “tempers” the eggs so they don’t scramble
Hi, My Indian pudding is a quarter of the way through the baking process and I’m very confused and concerned about the last step, adding 2 cups of cold milk on top. Is it not supposed to be mixed in? I just checked on it and the milk is still sitting separately as a layer on top. I gave it a gentle stir but it still looks separated. Is that correct?
Also, I used salted butter, and because of that I only added a half teaspoon of additional salt even though the recipe calls for 1 teaspoon. I tasted the mixture before adding the eggs and it’s salty! I hope it turns out okay. The recipe doesn’t specify salted or unsalted butter.
This is a custard. The only milk is what was initially cooked with the cornmeal. There should not be milk sitting on the top- or added past the initial boiling process. If I use salted butter I eliminate salt as an ingredient
Could I use dark corn syrup instead of molasses? I have a lot of the former and none of the latter.
Hi, Eva. Yes, you could make that substitution. The flavor will be slightly different, but not in a bad way.
A very interesting recipie; I did not know Cornmeal was referred to as Indian Flour; I would guess whole unrefined corn meal has more nutritents than "white bleached flour"; European colonists tweaked the British pudding recipe and substituted cornmeal (often called “Indian flour”) for wheat flour, producing the dish we know as “Indian Pudding.” Molasses is healthy!!!
Could I substitute almond or any other nut flour for the cornmeal? Does that change the cooking time or amounts?