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Also known as ''corn mush'' or ''Indian mush'', hasty pudding in its simplest form is corn meal cooked slowly in water until it thickens. It may be eaten hot, or left to cool and solidify. Slices of the cold pudding may then be fried. Hasty pudding was once a popular American food because of its low cost, long shelf life, and versatility, and was eaten with both sweet and savory accompaniments, such as Maple Syrup , or Salted Meat . Count Rumford , an American inventor who disapproved of the Revolution and went to live in Europe, still liked his hasty pudding, hot, in a bowl of milk. Eliza Leslie , the influential American Cookbook author of the early 19th Century , includes a recipe for Flour hasty pudding in her 1840 '' Directions For Cookery, In Its Various Branches '', and calls the corn type Indian mush (she calls an oatmeal version ''burgoo''). She stresses the need for slow cooking rather than haste, and also recommends the use of a special ''mush-stick'' for stirring to prevent lumps. This mush-stick is perhaps related to the ''pudding stick'' of the Nursery Rhyme beating. Hasty pudding, itself, is memorialized in a verse of the early American song '' Yankee Doodle '': :Father and I went down to camp :Along with Captain Goodin, :And there we saw the men and boys :As thick as hasty puddin' Yanky doodle INDIAN PUDDING Indian Pudding is a more elaborate form of hasty pudding, with added ingredients such as Molasses and Spices , and is a traditional New England Dessert . POLENTA Polenta is the Italian version of hasty pudding, with Corn substituted for the Wheat originally used by the Romans . REFERENCES
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