Best New England Pudding Recipes

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.

OLD FASHIONED NEW ENGLAND INDIAN PUDDING

Steps:

• Scald the milk and butter in a large double boiler. Or heat the milk and butter for 5-6 minutes on high heat in the microwave, until it is boiling, then transfer it to a pot on the stove. Keep hot on medium heat.
• Preheat oven to 250.
• In a separate bowl, mix cornmeal, flour, and salt; stir in molasses. Thin the mixture with about 1/2 cup of scalded milk, a few tablespoons at a time, then gradually add the mixture back to the large pot of scalded milk. Cook, stirring until thickened.
• Temper the eggs by slowly adding a half cup of the hot milk cornmeal mixture to the beaten eggs, whisking constantly.
• Add the egg mixture back in with the hot milk cornmeal mixture, stir to combine.
• Stir in the sugar and spices, until smooth. At this point, if the mixture is clumpy, you can run it through a blender to smooth it out.
• Stir in the raisins (optional).
• Pour into a 2 1/2 quart shallow casserole dish.
• Bake for 2 hours at 250.
• Allow the pudding to cool about an hour to be at its best. It should be reheated to warm temperature if it has been chilled. Serve with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.

NEW ENGLAND CORN PUDDING (INDIAN PUDDING 1)

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325°F.
• Lightly grease a 6 or 8 cup soufflé dish with butter.
• In a medium-size saucepan over medium-low heat, scald the milk.
• While the milk is heating, pour the cream into a medium sized bowl and stir in the cornmeal, sugar, molasses, salt, and spices.
• Add the cornmeal mixture to the scalded milk and cook, whisking constantly over medium-low heat until the pudding has thickened to the consistency of syrup (about 5 minutes).
• Remove it from the heat.
• In a small bowl with a whisk, beat the eggs.
• Add 1/2 cup of the hot cornmeal mixture to the eggs while whisking rapidly.
• Then vigorously whisk the egg mixture back into the remaining cornmeal mixture.
• Add the butter and stir until it melts.
• Pour the pudding into the prepared baking dish, and place the dish in a shallow baking pan on the center oven rack.
• Pour enough hot water into the larger pan to come two-thirds of the way up the sides of the pudding baking dish.
• Bake the pudding until it is set and a tester inserted close to but not in the center comes out clean, about 1 1/4 hours.
• Remove the pudding from the water bath and cool slightly.
• Serve it warm with vanilla ice cream or heavy cream spooned over the top.

INDIAN PUDDING 2 (NEW ENGLAND CORN PUDDING)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F.
• In the top of a double boiler over direct heat, heat the milk to boiling.
• Stir in the corn meal.
• Place the milk/corn meal mixture over boiling water.
• Cook them for about 15 minutes.
• Stir in molasses and cook for about 5 minutes.
• Remove from heat.
• Stir in the butter, salt, ginger, sugar, egg, raisins, cinnamon and apples (if you are using them).
• Pour the batter into a well-greased baking dish.
• Bake the pudding from 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
• Pudding is usually served warm (or hot) with Hard Sauce.
• Its a New England custom to serve Indian Pudding with a scoop of Vanilla ice cream on the top.

NEW ENGLAND INDIAN PUDDING

Steps:

• Gradually stir the corn meal into the hot milk.
• Cook over low heat or in a double boiler over hot water about 15 minutes until thick, stirring constantly; remove from heat.
• Blend together sugar through cinnamon and add to corn meal mixture.
• Stir in molasses and cold milk.
• Fold in raisins if using.
• Bake in a buttered 1-quart casserole at 275°F 2 hours.
• Serve warm topped with whipped cream, garnished with a dash of nutmeg.

NEW ENGLAND PUDDING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• Combine drained pineapple and diced apples.
• Put into a 9-inch square pan.
• Mix walnuts and brown sugar together and spread over fruit.
• Beat eggs until thick and blend in flour and sugar.
• Add melted butter and mix thoroughly.
• Spread batter over the sugar and walnuts, making sure that mixture does not touch fruit mixture underneath.
• Bake for approximately 60 minutes or until golden brown.
• It's done when poked and no butter flows underneath.
• Serve warm with vanilla ice cream if desired.

NEW ENGLAND CORN PUDDING

Steps:

• Stir the flour, salt, sugar, and the melted butter into the corn.
• Beat the eggs slightly and combine with the milk.
• Combine the milk and corn mixtures and pour into a 2 quart baking dish that has been sprayed with Pam.
• Bake in a 450 degree oven for 45 minutes, until nicely browned.
• *IMPORTANT: Stir with a long-pronged fork, breaking the surface as little as possible 3 times during baking.

NEW ENGLAND CHRISTMAS PUDDING

Steps:

• Grease a pudding mold well with extra butter and dust with flour. Cover top with large piece of greased foil an fold snugly over sides of mold to keep steam out. Remember to leave some slack in foil because pudding will need room to expand.
• Mix together breadcrumbs, Craisins, molasses and melted butter. Combine baking soda and water and add to crumb mixture; mix well.
• Sift together flour, ginger, cinnamon and salt. Stir into crumb mixture. Pour mixture into greased pudding mold.
• Place mold on rack in steamer or large pot. Add boiling water to halfway up sides of pudding mold. Cover and steam for 2 hours or until firm to touch.

NEW ENGLAND BREAD PUDDING

Steps:

• In an ungreased 3 quart baking dish tear up the bread in pieces.
• In another bowl pour boiling water over the raisins and drain.
• Add to the bread and mix up.
• In another bowl beat the eggs, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt.
• Add the milk to this.
• Mix well and pour over the bread and mix gently.
• Set this dish in a pan of water and bake 350 degrees for 1 1/2 hours.
• Serve with whipped cream dollops.

NEW ENGLAND CORN PUDDING RECIPE

Steps:

• Butter melted Stir the flour, salt, sugar, and the melted butter into the corn. Beat the eggs slightly and combine with the milk. Combine the milk and corn mixtures and pour into a 2 quart baking dish that has been sprayed with Pam. Bake in a 450 degree oven for 45 minutes, until nicely browned. *IMPORTANT: Stir with a long-pronged fork, breaking the surface as little as possible 3 times during baking. Instructions: Stir the flour, salt, sugar, and the melted butter into the corn. Beat the eggs slightly and combine with the milk. Combine the milk and corn mixtures and pour into a 2 quart baking dish that has been sprayed with Pam. Bake in a 450 degree oven for 45 minutes, until nicely browned. *IMPORTANT: Stir with a long-pronged fork, breaking the surface as little as possible 3 times during baking.

NEW ENGLAND PUDDING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Butter a nine inch pan. Combine apples and pineapple. Fill the pan with mixture. Mix walnuts and brown sugar together and spread over the fruit. Beat the eggs until thick. Add sugar and flour and blend. Add the melted butter and mix well. Spread the batter over the sugar and walnuts, being careful the mixture does not touch the fruit underneath. Bake for about one hour or until golden brown. The pudding is done when poked and no butter flows underneath. Let cool slightly. Serve with vanilla ice cream.