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Default Baked Indian Pudding - my first time
On 3/2/2019 12:27 PM, wrote:
> On Saturday, March 2, 2019 at 12:20:06 PM UTC-5, Jill McQuown wrote:
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>> How old are those recipes? If they were truly based on Colonial-era
>> cooking I'm betting they made large quantities and added more salt to
>> account for long-term storage. Not being familiar with puddings, I'd
>> have to wonder are the results supposed to be custardy or bready?
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>> Jill
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> I assume they're based on 17th & 18th century recipes. The book itself said 1982.
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Thanks! I love reading old books like that.

> The result was custardy, as I expected. (It's a lot of milk.)
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> Lenona.
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Okay, I guess I was thinking more bread-like. The excessive salt could
still be due to the fact that they didn't have much in the way of
preservation methods back then. <shrug> I'm sure you did the right
thing by cutting back on it.

Jill
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