hasty pudding

Example Sentences

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At the Chalk Hill House near Uniontown, she was served fried chicken, fried ham, fried hasty pudding, huckleberries, strawberry preserves, real maple syrup, watermelon-rind pickles, cookies, cake, applesauce, flannel cakes and coffee.

From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2015

I will stand tall as I stand on this list, of hasty pudding honourees - you get the gist.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2010

In the 1790s some Harvard students met on Saturday nights, held mock trials, wound up by slapping together a mess of corn meal and molasses called hasty pudding.

From Time Magazine Archive

His editorial recipe served the housewife a hasty pudding of bland fiction, beauty tips, and advice ranging from babies to plumbing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Laura looked at him all the time she was eating her hasty pudding, because she had heard Pa say to Ma that he was wild.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder