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

Hasty pudding had been made in England of wheat-flour or oatmeal and milk, and the name was given to boiled puddings of corn-meal and water.

From Home Life in Colonial Days by Earle, Alice Morse

Hasty pudding and molasses composed the morning meal for all.

From Lizzy Glenn or, The Trials of a Seamstress by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)