I hope someone can help, in the depression my mother chopped up prunes and make a creamy pudding. It tasted wonderful, course we were always hungry in those days, I have searced for years for the reciepe,thank you all. Irene

-- Irene orsborn (tkorsborn@cs.com), April 21, 2001

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Response to I"m looking for a prune pudding, My mother made in the 1930"s

Irene: In a cookbook called Gramma's Wartime Kitchen, recipes from WWII, there is a recipe called Prune Hasty, sounds more like a plum pudding than a creamy type, but here it is: 1-1/2 C. Cooked prunes, pitted and chopped 3/4 C. evaporated milk 3/4 C. bread crumbs 1/2 C. packed light brown sugar 1/2 C finely chopped nuts 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla

Preheat oven to 325. Generously grease a 1-1/2 quart casserole or pudding mold. Combine all ingredients and pour into greased mold. Bake 1 hour or until center is firm. Remove to wire rack and cool 10 minutes. Unmold, if desired, or serve from casserole. Serve hot. Makes 6 servings.

I looked in a 1934 Household Searchlight Cookbook, and the only prune pudding in there is the same type, like a plum pudding. There is an apricot one, that is an "icebox pudding", more of a creamy type, it sounds like, but probably not what you're looking for. Jan

-- Jan in CO (Janice12@aol.com), April 21, 2001.

Check at your Local Library the next time you are near there and look for a cookbook called the Fannie Farmer Cookbook. Try to find an old one it may be in there it has some good old recipes in it. Val

-- Valory Leonard (valoryvaleo@aol.com), April 24, 2001.

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-- ~Rogo (rogo2020@yahoo.com), April 25, 2001.