Receipts furnished in 1846
Hasty pudding
Put into three pints of water and a table spoonful of salt, and when it begins to boil situr in meal until it is thick enough for table. Add if you choose, sour apple chopped, cook twenty of thirty minutes. Eaten with milk, butter or treacle
side note: “Known in Ireland as stir-about”
Fried Hasty Pudding
Cut the cold pudding into smooth slices, and fry brown in a little butter or pork fat
Hasty Pudding Bread
Prepare hasty pudding as before: when lukewarm add yeast, and after rising, bake in a deep dish in a hot oven.
Indian Dumplings
Into one quart of meal stir one pint of boiling water and salt. We the hands in cold water, and make into smooth balls, two or three inches in diameter.
IOmmerge in boilign water, and cook over a steady fire twenty of thirty minutes. If you choose, put a few berries, a peach or part of an apple in the centre of each dumpling
side note:
“The Indian dumpling was cooked and eaten in every house in this part of Co. Galway”