Originally Posted by
mlshanks
One assumes incorrectly...
Indian pudding is a corn based version of English "hasty pudding," cracked or broken grains boiled or simmered in milk until soft. Making of hasty pudding w/ Indian corn is recorded in diaries of the Plimoth colony in the first generation of settlement... apparently independent of any southern influence.
Was your irony meter inactivated during your last browsing session?
You must admit the Pilgrims' Indian pudding must have seemed a bit savory until the first barrel of molasses arrived from the Islands. Maybe they used maple syrup. I can envision it now, molasses casks being unloaded on the long Wharf in Boston to the harbormaster's cry: "That one to Durgin Park for Indian puddling, the t'other to the distillery to further degenerate and deprave the Injuns!"