Two Hasty Pudding recipes were featured in the 1739 edition of The compleat housewife: or, Accomplished gentlewoman's companion, by E. Smith.
Students of Harvard’s Indian College ate meals in a dining building of the Old College. Due to limited funding, the food was lackluster at best. Records of two dinners note that in one week, “Goat’s dung [was] in the hasty pudding,” and “Mackerel [was] served with their guts in them.” However, much like today, students sometimes chose to prepare alternative dishes. A 1979 excavation revealed bones, trimmings, and waste were scattered in the backyard of the Goffe College, the Indian College dormitory.
