Pop Robin was a type of boiled milk pudding created using a simple recipe. It consisted
of boiled milk that was slightly salted, butter added, and then thickened with a batter of wheat flower dropped into it gradually. If available cinammon was added and sometimes a sweetener. The lumps of scalded flour formed a "pop" or small buttons in the pudding.
Possibly the term was brought to New Hampshire by the Quaker immigrants. The term was used outside of New England. In 1830 the Annals of Philadelphia describe that the local Quakers made a Poprobin Soup (the Pennsylvania Dutch called it Rivvel Soup].
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