Old recipe for Rutabaga pudding. Rutabagas were a popular vegetable that grew well in the fields of Strawberry Point, Alaska. Planted by early settlers from 1914 on, they also provided fodder for cattle and other livestock on "the flats". They are a cross between wild cabbage and turnips.

Rutabaga  Pudding

              six tablespoons butter.

              one tablespoon grated finely onion

              four cups peeled and grated rutabagas

              three eggs

              three ounce fresh cream cheese

              two cups milk

              three fourths teaspoon salt

              pinch or more of pepper

              three fourths cup of fresh bread crumbs

Best served with fresh ham or good pork.

Directions

Melt three tablespoons  butter in large pan  and cook onion until lightly colored. Add rutabagas. Stir  to coat with  butter and cook rutabagas until wilted. Maybe ten minutes will  do. Beat  eggs   and add to cream cheese and beat together  quite thoroughly. Heat milk on stove and slowly add to egg and cream cheese.  Then stir in rutabaga mixtures and salt and peppers. Grease baking pan. Melt  rest of the butter and in frying pan brown  bread crumbs and sprinkle on top  the rutabagas. Bake in moderate temperatures until cooked through.

Old recipe for Rutabaga pudding. Rutabagas were a popular vegetable that grew well in the fields of Strawberry Point, Alaska. Planted by early settlers from 1914 on, they also provided fodder for cattle and other livestock on "the flats". They are a cross between wild cabbage and turnips.

Rutabaga  Pudding

              six tablespoons butter.

              one tablespoon grated finely onion

              four cups peeled and grated rutabagas

              three eggs

              three ounce fresh cream cheese

              two cups milk

              three fourths teaspoon salt

              pinch or more of pepper

              three fourths cup of fresh bread crumbs

Best served with fresh ham or good pork.

Directions

Melt three tablespoons  butter in large pan  and cook onion until lightly colored. Add rutabagas. Stir  to coat with  butter and cook rutabagas until wilted. Maybe ten minutes will  do. Beat  eggs   and add to cream cheese and beat together  quite thoroughly. Heat milk on stove and slowly add to egg and cream cheese.  Then stir in rutabaga mixtures and salt and peppers. Grease baking pan. Melt  rest of the butter and in frying pan brown  bread crumbs and sprinkle on top  the rutabagas. Bake in moderate temperatures until cooked through.