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From: Dora Smith <>
Subject: german pudding
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 19:34:07 -0500 (EST)


I want to thank everyone who responded to my request for info on
Pennsylvania Dutch pudding. Especially Brenda. Just when I had decided
that the inquirer on the Dehartrecipe list had misunderstood and this
Pennsylvania Dutch Pudding was a reference either to a broad kind of
pudding, like tapioca, rice pudding, corn starch pudding, or to the
Pennsylvania Dutch INVENTING pudding (it would't surprise me, they seem to
have invented quite alot, the English puddings don't even resemble the
American concept of pudding), someone posted to the Dehart list a recipe
much like Brenda's. This is the English kind of pudding. I wonder how
far back bread puddings go? Saxon times, maybe? Kind of like the way
Yorkshire has a close replica of scrapple. I'll post what she said. Since
she is Dehart by marriage and Pennsylvania Dutch by birth, I suggested she
join this list, too.

How PA Dutch are such puddings as tapioca? My father has always LOVED the
stuff. His PA Dutch line is straight female line from his mother. That
is which way family recipes would have travelled, and I think the way this
one did, only until now I thought most of them went the way of his
knowledge that he was half German.

Yours,
Dora Smit

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