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KathyRo's avatar

What? No spanikopita? No moussaka??

My childhood is a lie. 😮

I'm pulling for some kind of a boiled pudding, given their cultural background. Something to simulate "plum pudding". Hasty pudding is made from cornmeal and although it doesn't resemble a plum pudding in form, I can see it paving the way for a corn-based boiled pudding.

Good news for any undiagnosed Celiac disease sufferers in their midst.

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Dootsie's avatar

Hahaha though the Pilgrims DID have access to grape leaves... 🧐

They definitely would've brought the know-how for puds over the ocean! Cooks would've definitely done a lot of improvising over the course of that first year, and that's exactly the sort of comfort food puzzle they would've tried to work out. Who knows, it might've been a precursor to American cobblers?

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