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It was so salt, so hard, and so tough, that only a sailor's palate can possibly enjoy it. Instead of soup, vegetables, and pudding, we had pearl-barley boiled in water, without salt or butter; to which treacle and vinegar was added at the dinner-table. All the others considered this a delicacy, and marvelled at my depraved taste when I declared it to be unpalatable.
And as for Parson Whitney himself, the day and its fun had taken twenty years from his age. And nothing would answer but the deacon must go with him and help eat the New Year's pudding at the parsonage. And he did. At the table they laughed and talked over the funny incidents of the day and joked each other as merrily as two boys.
The others groaned, and we gathered closer round the fire till the newspapers rustled madly. "I believe I could make a pudding that wasn't plain, if I tried," Alice said. "Why shouldn't we?" "No chink," said Oswald, with brief sadness. "How much would it cost?" Noël asked, and added that Dora had twopence and H.O. had a French halfpenny.
Suppawn and milk was the customary supper at the Mansion, and as its mistress liked to have the pudding cooked for a long time and also continually stirred during that operation, Alfaretta had become expert in the matter of managing. The pot was duly put on at the hour appointed, and the Indian meal carefully sifted into the salt, boiling water.
"Their nerves are just putrid. There was another night once " he talked quickly between spoonfuls of rice pudding. "In a fog ... we were making a lightship off the Dutch coast to verify our position.... Approached submerged, steering by sound of their submarine bell, and then came to the surface to get a bearing.
'At two o'clock: fish and roast mutton, or a mutton chop, with as much fat as possible: poultry, game, etc., may be taken with vegetables, and milk pudding. 'At five o'clock: hot milk with coffee or chocolate, bread and butter, watercress, etc. 'At eight o'clock: a pint of milk, with oatmeal or chocolate, and gluten bread, or two lightly boiled eggs with bread and butter.
The colonists learned from the Indians how to plant, nourish, harvest, grind, and cook it in many Indian ways, and in each way it formed a palatable food. The Indian pudding which they ate so constantly was made in Indian fashion and boiled in a bag. To the mush of Indian meal they gave the English name of hasty-pudding.
Miss Judith followed Agony's glance. "That," she replied in a non-committal tone, "is Jane Pratt. Will anyone have any more pudding?" The pudding was delicious chocolate with custard sauce and Miss Judith was immediately busy refilling a half dozen dishes all proffered her at once.
A suggestion of a frown hovered above her black eyebrows. "You can't mean that you're going into business!" she returned, as she passed him a dish of steaming pudding. There was a suggestion of last night's scorn in her incredulity. "No?... And why not?" She cast a sidelong glance at him. "That takes money," she objected.
But the latter generally wins for a time. I had passed the mutton stage and was weltering in warm rice pudding, before I found leisure to pause and take in things generally; and then a glance in the direction of the window told me, to my dismay, that it was raining hard.
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