hasty-pudding

(has’ti-pud’ing), n. 1. A thick batter or pudding made of milk and flour boiled quickly together; also, oatmeal and water boiled together; porridge. This country produces a good deal of meliza or Turkish wheat, which is what we call Indian corn. The meal of this grain goes by the name of polenta, and makes excellent hasty-pudding, being very nourishing, and counted an admirable pectoral. Smollett, Travels, xvii. The Hot Hasty-pudding Eaters... contend for superiority by swallowing the greatest quantity of hot hasty pudding in the shortest time. Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 476. hat 2. Specifically, in the United States, a batter made of Indian meal stirred into boiling water, boiled till thick enotigh to be palatable, and eaten with milk, or sometimes with butter or syrup; mush, Thy name is Hasty Pudding! thus our sires Were wont to greet thee fuming from their fires; In haste the boiling caldron o'er the blaze Receives and cooks the ready-powdered maize. In haste ’tis sery’d; and then in equal haste, With cooling milk, we make the sweet repast. J. Barlow, Hasty Pudding, i.