Crow Nest Pudding

Recipe from the cookbook.

Ok, here's my second tried recipe - Crow Nest Pudding. Once again the directions left much to be desired. How hot should the oven be? How long should I cook it?

So I decided to use blueberries as the fruit. That may have been a bad choice because the blueberries weren't very tasty on their own. But c'est la vie.

After 15 minutes in the oven.

The first instruction I had to figure out is "sprinkle with sugar and flour." Ok, hmmm, the "batter" doesn't have any flour....so how is this going to thicken and become a pudding? So I sprinkled about two tablespoons of flour and only a tiny bit of sugar over the fruit. The "batter" had a cup of sugar so I was sure it would be sweet enough - 1 cup of sugar for only one pint of fruit, right?

I love that these recipes tell you how much butter to use based on the size of a walnut? Did the PA Dutch always have walnuts on hand? Do walnuts grow native in PA?

After stirring and 30 minutes of cooking.

Anyway, I went with 350 degrees for the oven. I seem to think that's the average temperature for baking in an oven. Am I right or wrong? Don't know.

This is what it looked like 15 minutes after I put it in the oven. I thought I should stir it so I did. And cooked it another 15 minutes. It still didn't seem pudding like so I went another 15 minutes.

Turns out I left it in for 1 hour. Was that enough? Too much?

After 1 hour of cooking. Finished? I guess?

I'm not sure. This is what it looked like.

So, did it turn out the way it was supposed to?

I have no idea.

It tasted fine - although really sweet - but I wouldn't have titled it a pudding.

Ice cream topping, maybe. Topping for pancakes or some other cake, maybe, as well.

But once again a fun experience!

Should I have increased the temperature of the oven? Should I have sprinkled more flour?

But most importantly,why is this called Crow Nest Pudding?