Roots and Nostalgia!

mmm, I never thought I'd enjoy being a Librarian so much. Silly me! Why wouldn't I as much as I love to read? When I was substituting a couple of weeks ago at an Elementary school as a Librarian, I got familiar with a couple of old favorites.

I love Eric Carle. He is a fantastic children's writer and artist. One of my favorite books growing up was The Very Hungry Caterpillar!

I spent a lot of time in the biography section getting the kiddies excited over books. I was reading about Chief Red Cloud from the Sioux Indians... It got me thinking about how we should all be so grateful for those Native Americans on Thanksgiving! ;)

One way you can honor them, make Sioux Indian Pudding (I'm from the Cherokee, but who gives an eff), mmmmm:


PREP TIME
15 Min
COOK TIME
2 Hrs
READY IN
2 Hrs 15 Min
Original recipe yield 1 - 1 quart pudding
SERVINGS


3 cups milk
1/3 cup cornmeal
1/4 cup dark molasses
1/4 cup white sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon


DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 275 degrees F (135 degrees C). Butter a 1 quart baking dish.
In a large saucepan over medium heat, cook milk until bubbles form at edges. Slowly stir cornmeal and molasses into milk. Continue to cook and stir until thickened, 10 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in sugar, salt, ginger and cinnamon. Pour into prepared dish.
Bake in preheated oven 2 hours, until set. Serve hot or cold.

Enjoy!