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Green Corn Pudding

A historic early American dish of full ears of sweet green corn, milk, eggs well beaten, half teacupful of flour and half teacupful butter. Adapted from Green Corn Pudding, from The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887).

Adapted from Green Corn Pudding, in The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887), preserved in the Open Recipe Archive's Ye Old American Recipe Book collection and marked public domain. The method is condensed from the original and the quantities are restated in modern units; see the archive record at https://github.com/AdamBouhmad/open-recipe-archive/blob/main/collections/ye-old-american/recipes/green-corn-pudding-3.md.

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Green Corn Pudding

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Cooking Instructions

  1. Score the kernels and cut them from the cob

  2. Scrape off what remains on the cob with a knife

  3. Add milk according to the youngness and juiciness of the corn

  4. Add four eggs well beaten, flour, butter, sugar, and salt to taste

  5. Bake in a well-greased earthen dish in hot oven two hours

  6. Place on the table browned and smoking hot

  7. Eat with plenty of fresh butter or serve with a sweet sauce as dessert

Adapted from Open Recipe Archive · The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887; archive record marked public domain). View a published recipe at Project Gutenberg (opens in a new tab)