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Show linked Indian ruddiiiR. A baked Indian pudding is a dessert in which the old time New Knglund housekeeper took special pride, says tho New Youk Tribune. It is doubtful doubt-ful if it ever can be served in perfection perfec-tion without a brick oven. It shoidd bo dark, rich in flavor, with a jelly like substance mixed through it, tho result of a long, slow baking at a steady heat and successive additions of milk during tho baking. Katen with a rich cream or with mnplo sugar, if you wish, melted In cream or with simply sweet butter, this pudding is a culinary triumph. It is a failure if any makeshift process is resorted to in order to shorten the time of its preparation. It should bo baked at least six hours, if a steady, slow heat can bo maintained 'in tho stove. If possible ttse tho "old process," not tho kiln-dried meal usually sold in city groceries. Tho "old process" meal can be obtained at mills and is often sold by country grocery stores. To make the pudding, stir into a pint of cold milk seven even teaspoonfuls of Indian meal. Add a teacup of molasses, a half teospoonful of salt and a largo tablespoonful of butter. Pour another pint of milk scalding hot over the other ingredients and stir it well. Put tho pudding into a thick earthen pudding dish, for the old-fashioned yellow ware seems tho most appropriate to servo it In. It should bo begun early Thanksgiving Thanks-giving morning in order to bo served at a 3 o'clock dinner, us it should be nearly done before it is time to prepare tho main part of the dinner. When you are ready to make up a hot fire for roasting tho turkey and other cooking, it can be put, covered with a hot plate, in the heating closet of the range, where it will keep at a uniform temperature, tem-perature, iind continue to work out its perfection. If the dinner is to be served at 3 o'clock the pudding should be put in tho oven as early as 8 in tho morning and the oven maintained at a steady heat till 1 o'clock, when the lire can bo kindled over to furnish the intense in-tense heat required for roasting. Then tho pudding may be put in tho heating closet. We may add this pudding tastes quite as good any other day. |