hasty pudding

American  

noun

1. New England. cornmeal mush.

2. Chiefly British. a dish made of flour or oatmeal stirred into seasoned boiling water or milk and quickly cooked.

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hasty pudding British  

noun

1. a simple pudding made from milk thickened with tapioca, semolina, etc, and sweetened

2. a mush of cornmeal, served with treacle sugar

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Etymology

Origin of hasty pudding

First recorded in 1590–1600

Example Sentences

Then Uncle George came with a smaller bucket of syrup, and everybody ate the hot hasty pudding with maple syrup for supper.

From Literature

One of its first mandates was “members in alphabetical order shall provide a pot of hasty pudding for every meeting.”

From Seattle Times

At the Chalk Hill House near Uniontown, she was served fried chicken, fried ham, fried hasty pudding, huckleberries, strawberry preserves, real maple syrup, watermelon-rind pickles, cookies, cake, applesauce, flannel cakes and coffee.

From Washington Post

My diet consists mostly of hasty pudding, boiled corn, and bread baked in the ashes, and sometimes a little meat and butter.

From Project Gutenberg

"A dish of hasty pudding," replied Ben, with the smile of an innocent youth who had a keen appetite, with something good to satisfy it—"a dish of nice hasty pudding, sir, made of oats."

From Project Gutenberg