Person:Polly Root (3)

Indian Meal Pudding

Rub a teaspoonful of butter round the bottom and sides of a smooth iron kettle, -granite or porcelain will do; when melted, add half a cup of boiling water. This will prevent the milk from burning. Add one quart of milk. Let it boil up, and almost over the kettle; then sift in one pint of fine yellow granulated corn meal, sifting with the left hand, and holding the meal high, that every grain may be thoroughly scalded. Stir constantly; add half a teaspoonful of salt, and set away till cold. Then add half a pint of New Orleans molasses and one quart of cold milk. Put it in a "Saturday afternoon oven", where the fire will keep low nearly all night. Let it remain over night, and serve for a Sunday breakfast.

Mrs. Barnabas (Polly) Churchill

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Gunn Cemetery, in Find A Grave.

   Polly Root Churchill

2. ↑ Pioneer Women of Green, in Wickham, Gertrude Van Rensselaer (editor). Memorial to the Pioneer Women of the Western Reserve. (Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States: Cleveland Centennial Commission Woman's Department, 1896)
   Vol. 1 p. 41.

   Mrs. Barnabas Churchill (Polly Root) was six weeks on the road, making the journey from Connecticut, with two children in an ox cart enduring all its hardships with fortitude.