Maine Indian Pudding Recipes

MAINE INDIAN PUDDING

Steps:

• Scald 2 cups milk in a double boiler.
• Mix until smooth the corn meal and the 1/2 cup cold milk.
• Then stir into the hot milk and cook over the hot water for 20 minutes, stirring frequently.
• Add the dark molasses, salt, sugar, cinnamon, and butter; mix well.
• Pour into a buttered pudding dish.
• Pour the last 1 3/4 cups of cold milk over the top of the pudding.
• Bake at 250 degrees for 3 hours (yes, 3 hours is correct).
• Let sit for about 1/2 hour after it comes out of the oven.
• Serve with heavy cream or vanilla ice cream.

MAINE CRAZY PUDDING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Cream the sugar with 1 stick butter. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, mace and ginger. Combine milk and cream; add, one-third at a time, to creamed butter-sugar alternately with the dry ingredients, mixing well after each addition.
• Add raisins and mix well. Grease a large rectangular pan (10 by 14 inches) and pour the batter into the pan, tilting to distribute it evenly.
• Bring 8 cups water to a boil. Mix boiling water with brown sugar, molasses, 6 tablespoons butter, lemon juice and rum. Pour liquid ingredients over batter, place in oven and bake one hour.
• When ready to serve, combine garnish ingredients and beat to lighten. Serve the warm pudding with the cream on top.

NEW ENGLAND INDIAN PUDDING

Steps:

• In a large bowl, whisk cornbread mix, pudding mix and milk until blended. Add eggs, molasses and spices; whisk until combined. Transfer to a greased 4- or 5-qt. slow cooker. Cover and cook on high for 1 hour., Reduce heat to low. Stir pudding, making sure to scrape sides of slow cooker well. Cover and cook until very thick, 2-1/2 to 3 hours longer, stirring once per hour. Serve warm with ice cream if desired.

INDIAN PUDDING

Steps:

• Lightly grease the insert of a 2 1/2- to 3-quart slow cooker. Combine all the ingredients in the cooker and whisk together thoroughly. Cover and cook on low for 4 to 5 hours, until set.
• Allow to cool slightly, then spoon generous portions into bowls.

OLD FASHIONED INDIAN PUDDING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Heat milk and butter in saucepan or microwave till warm.
• While milk is warming mix cornmeal, sugar, molasses and salt together in a baking pan until the mixture is smooth and well-mixed.
• When milk is warm enough that the butter begins to melt (the original recipe says to scald it but I don't get it that hot) add the warm milk to the molasses mixture. Do it slowly, stirring after each addition until incorporated. Once all the milk is added put in oven.
• Stir every 20 minutes or so. The cornmeal will initially lump or settle to the bottom of the pan. Mix it together and get rid of the lumps. The mixture will cook down and get thicker. When it is thick, brown and grainy looking it is done. This takes between 1 - 2 hours depending on whether you are using whole milk or milk with less fat.
• Remove from oven. Let cool a bit and serve with iced cream or whipped cream.

INDIAN PUDDING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 275 degrees. In a medium saucepan, combine half-and-half, molasses, butter, ginger, cinnamon, and salt. Bring to a boil; remove from heat, and whisk in cornmeal.
• Pour mixture into an 8-inch square baking dish, and bake until pudding is firm but still jiggles slightly in the center when gently shaken, 2 to 21/2 hours. Let cool 30 to 60 minutes; serve warm or at room temperature, with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream, if desired.

BAKED INDIAN PUDDING WITH MAPLE SYRUP

Steps:

• Pour 4 cups hot milk into the top of a double boiler and place over simmering water. Slowly stir cornmeal into milk and cook until thickened, about 20 minutes. Stir occasionally.
• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease a 2-quart round baking dish.
• Whisk maple syrup, brown sugar, molasses, eggs, melted butter, salt, ginger, and cinnamon together in a bowl. Stir maple syrup mixture into cornmeal-milk mixture until thoroughly combined; pour into prepared baking dish. Pour 1/2 cup cold milk over top of pudding.
• Bake until set but still slightly quivery on top, about 2 hours. Let stand 30 minutes before serving.

DEERFIELD INN INDIAN PUDDING

Steps:

• Scald milk in top half of a double boiler. Whisk in sugar, molasses and cornmeal and cook, stirring frequently, until mixture thickens, about 20 minutes.
• Melt butter and set aside to cool slightly. Beat eggs, then beat in spices. When butter is cool enough to add to eggs without cooking them, beat butter in until you have a homogeneous mixture.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter an 8-inch round ovenproof ceramic or glass souffle dish. Add cornmeal mixture to eggs, bit by bit, until the two are thoroughly incorporated.
• Pour into the souffle dish and place in oven. Bake 35 minutes or until pudding is set.
• Serve pudding immediately, or at room temperature, garnished if desired with vanilla ice cream or with cinnamon-flavored whipped cream.