Baked Indian Pudding

Ingredients

  • 6 cups milk
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • 1/4 cup corn meal
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 cup molasses
  • few grains ginger

Directions

Scald one pint of milk with corn meal and cook twenty minutes; add remaining milk and rest of ingredients. Pour into deep earthen dish and bake, set in a pan of hot water, in a slow oven, four hours. The afternoon fire is the one best suited for cooking this pudding.