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National Themes For November 13: National Indian Pudding Day, and World Kindness Day.

🥄National Indian Pudding Day! In the seventeenth century, English colonists brought hasty pudding to North America, transforming it. Although they initially made the pudding with wheat, due to a shortage of grain, the colonists eventually used cornmeal. Since the colonists had learned to cultivate maize (corn) from the indigenous peoples, the crop was readily available. The colonists derived the name for Indian pudding from their name for cornmeal, Indian meal. They also replaced the water with milk. For added flavor, cooks add either molasses or maple syrup. Other ingredients they added include cinnamon, ground ginger, butter, eggs, raisins, and nuts. They then slowly baked the Indian pudding for several hours. Baking transforms the pudding’s texture from the original porridge-like quality of hasty pudding to a much smoother quality which is more typical of custard. ✨Before 1900, most American cookbooks included a recipe for Indian pudding. ✨By the 20th-century, commercial puddings with an industrially perfect creamy consistency replaced the popularity of Indian pudding. ✨The long cooking time required for Indian pudding did not appeal to 20th century home cooks. ✨However, during the autumn holidays, Indian pudding some restaurants serve the dish due to its fall traditions. ✨Vanilla ice cream or whipped cream pair nicely with Indian pudding.

❤️World Kindness Day, we are encouraged to spread kindness. We want to share it more than usual because studies show when others observe kindness in action they are more likely to carry out an act of kindness, too. We each have the potential to improve each others lives through understanding and kindness. Whether it’s a friend, family member, coworker or stranger, our ability to show our humanity should have no limit. The World Kindness Movement started World Kindness Day in 1998 and has spread to 28 countries.

Warm hugs!🐶💕🌤🍂