Indian Pudding

5 cups scalded milk

⅓ cup Indian meal

½ cup molasses

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon ginger

Pour milk slowly on meal, cook in double boiler twenty minutes, add molasses, salt, and ginger; pour into buttered pudding-dish and bake two hours in slow oven; serve with cream. If baked too rapidly it will not whey. Ginger may be omitted.