This year my middleschool-aged son (homeschool) is taking US History. As a fun project this year, we are making the favorite foods of the presidents. Indian pudding was President John Tyler's favorite food. That's why I'm here, looking for a recipe!
Dave, great video! I appreciate the variety of all of the different types of recipes you make! It keeps it interesting and not limited to just a few "go-to's" when you're out in the bush! Thanks for all that you do! I love your channel and your mindset with all of the changes our nation is facing! God bless!
Wow, that brings back memories. Back when my kids were little, and money short/hard times, I made this for my children pretty often. Love cornbread, cornmeal pudding, anything with cornmeal--but this was our favorite. Thanks, Dave!
My Grandma used to take me on my birthday to Howard Johnson Restraunt and get me “Indian Pudding” even though it wasn’t listed on the menu. I loved it! Thanks for this, I’m gonna try it!
I love your videos and content! They are surely modern day "Foxfire" Americana living historic bits of information, and I'm glad to see it in the making. Thanks for your contributions to the American story!
Ive made Indian Pudding a few times, haven’t seen egg in it yet so I will have to give that a shot. Tips: You can use a covered “pot” inside of an Instant Pot took make this. You can also use crushed cornflakes in place of corn meal. The more cornmeal added, the firmer the pudding will be.
Good one David. We can tell if you truly like the food you make or not. Good on you for keeping some of these old old recipes relevant today. We easily forget the level of knowledge the early settlers had.
Heh! You got me! When you said everything you used was available at SRO, I immediately went there looking for that 10" skillet that I know you said won't be available until next year, but I had to check in case I missed anything. That pudding sure looks good, though! I'll have to try it in my Bedourie camp oven from Australia. I can put the handle for the Pathfinder skillet on backwards, fold it over the top and lock it down to use to lift it in and out of my 10" oven.
You getting paid to do an ad for fuckin Livingstone or something? You could have just said your camp oven. Dunno why Australia is relevant to anything you said, it doesn't make a single shred of difference where the camp oven comes from. The state Australia is in right now, I wouldn't want to mention it. I'm not proud of being from there, especially after Morrison's mess of a Government fucked up the place.
i served this to family this thanksgiving - we have puritan ancestors - i tried to recognize the complicated history of north america by calling it "population displacement pudding"
Too bad you didn’t show a closeup of the cooked pudding. It was hard to see the consistency from your camera angle while you were eating it. It looked really tasty, though. I really liked your idea of using the larger skillet to create an ‘oven’.
Simple fare, simple recipe, and old fashion (outdoor) approach. Great. Some of what Dave is doing here is using methods long forgotten, and the foods used with the methods. Our modern methods and "Healthy Living" foods put food like this into the past and on the bad list. Oddly, the old foods and methods feed and kept all of our ancestors going just fine, well maybe not Opossum stew. Just kidding.
