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

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 • Apr. 16, 2015

I will stand tall as I stand on this list, of hasty pudding honourees - you get the gist.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2010

His editorial recipe served the housewife a hasty pudding of bland fiction, beauty tips, and advice ranging from babies to plumbing.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the 1790s some Harvard students met on Saturday nights, held mock trials, wound up by slapping together a mess of corn meal and molasses called hasty pudding.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder