Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1903 — Puddiag at Baginning of Dinner. [ARTICLE]

Puddiag at Baginning of Dinner.

The custom of serving padding as life first course at dinner seems to have Interested a good many people of our day. A gentleman from Maine informs the writer that it la still the custom in certain sections of his state. In the autobiography of the Adams family It Is mentioned that at a dinner given by the venerable ex-president of the United States, at which his grandchildren were present, the first coarse wss Indian pudding, and the little folks were told that the more pudding they ate the more beef they could have. So of course they gorged Jthemselves on the pudding, nnd as a consequence they had no appetite for beef when It was served. Thus were maintained the simple and economical methods of the forefathers. The boys who came to the city from the country and later became the successful and wealthy merchants of Boston were raised In a most frugal manner. Their breakfast the year round was of brown bread and milk and the same for their sapper. The dinner was of baked beans and pie, rarely any meat—Boston Transcript.