What is "hasty pudding"

Hasty pudding \Has"ty pud"ding\ (h[=a]s"t[y^] p[.u]d"d[i^]ng).

1. A thick batter pudding made of Indian meal stirred into boiling water; mush. [U. S.]

2. A batter or pudding made of flour or oatmeal, stirred into boiling water or milk. [Eng.]

n. a simple pudding or porridge of grains cooked in milk or water

1. n. sweetened porridge made of tapioca or flour or oatmeal cooked quickly in milk or water

2. cornmeal mush served with sweetening (maple syrup or brown sugar)

Hasty pudding is a pudding or porridge of grains cooked in milk or water. In the United States, it often refers to a version made of ground corn. Hasty pudding is notably mentioned in a verse of the early American song Yankee Doodle.

Hasty Pudding may refer to:

• Hasty pudding, a food prepared using a ground grain
• Hasty Pudding cipher (HPC), a variable-block-size block cipher designed by Richard Schroeppel
• Hasty Pudding Club, the Harvard social club
• The Hasty-Pudding, a poem written in 1793 by Joel Barlow
• Hasty Pudding Theatricals, Harvard acting troupe