Maine Crazy Pudding Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Cream the sugar with 1 stick butter. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, mace and ginger. Combine milk and cream; add, one-third at a time, to creamed butter-sugar alternately with the dry ingredients, mixing well after each addition.
• Add raisins and mix well. Grease a large rectangular pan (10 by 14 inches) and pour the batter into the pan, tilting to distribute it evenly.
• Bring 8 cups water to a boil. Mix boiling water with brown sugar, molasses, 6 tablespoons butter, lemon juice and rum. Pour liquid ingredients over batter, place in oven and bake one hour.
• When ready to serve, combine garnish ingredients and beat to lighten. Serve the warm pudding with the cream on top.

Steps:

• 1. Spray a 9" cake pan or 1 quart ovenproof casserole with nonstick cooking spray. Layer1 In the baking dish, lightly and thoroughly mix the dry ingredients.
• 2. Combine the milk, vanilla extract, and oil.
• 3. Mix wet and dry ingredients thoroughly, and spread out in dish.
• 4. Layer 2 Over layer 1, sprinkle white & brown sugars, and cocoa powder.
• 5. Mix water/coffee with vanilla extract and pour slowly over the sugars/cocoa layer. DO NOT MIX.

Steps:

• Scald 2 cups milk in a double boiler.
• Mix until smooth the corn meal and the 1/2 cup cold milk.
• Then stir into the hot milk and cook over the hot water for 20 minutes, stirring frequently.
• Add the dark molasses, salt, sugar, cinnamon, and butter; mix well.
• Pour into a buttered pudding dish.
• Pour the last 1 3/4 cups of cold milk over the top of the pudding.
• Bake at 250 degrees for 3 hours (yes, 3 hours is correct).
• Let sit for about 1/2 hour after it comes out of the oven.
• Serve with heavy cream or vanilla ice cream.