Hasty Pudding. Maltese Cross
1 heaping cup of Indian meal.
½ cup flour.
1 quart boiling water.
1 pint milk.
1 table-spoonful butter.
1 teaspoonful salt.
Wet up meal and flour with the milk and stir into the boiling water. Boil hard half an hour, stirring almost constantly from the bottom. Put in salt and butter, and simmer ten minutes longer. Turn into a deep, uncovered dish, and eat with sugar and cream, or sugar and butter with nutmeg.
Our children like it.