hasty pudding

New England. cornmeal mush.

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

Origin of hasty pudding

First recorded in 1590–1600

Secondly, Madame Duparc conceals the fact that she handed the flour to the servant to make the hasty-pudding.

My Miscellanies, Vol. 2 (of 2) |Wilkie Collins
To the mush of Indian meal they gave the English name of hasty-pudding.

Customs and Fashions in Old New England |Alice Morse Earle
He then took hold of the knife, ripped up the leathern bag, and all the hasty-pudding tumbled out upon the floor.

Favorite Fairy Tales |Various
The men ate their hasty-pudding, bending their brows over it as if it were a witches' mess instead of their ordinary home fare.

Madelon |Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

At last she bought some flour and made a hasty-pudding of it.

Italian Popular Tales |Thomas Frederick Crane

hasty pudding

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

US a mush of cornmeal, served with treacle sugar